Message Number: YG14172 | New FHL Archives Search
From: Alicia
Date: 2002-06-25 12:57:00 UTC
Subject: Re: amazing Mommy instinct

At 09:52 AM 6/25/02 -0400, you wrote:

My ferret, Butterscotch, has five of these "babies" and she
carries them around the cage and tucks them to bed in the big
plush bed I made for them on the top level.She gets upset when
they are moved by one of the other ferrets, she promptly retrieves
it and puts it back to "bed". Butterscotch is a MF ferrets and she
will be 5 yrs old in Nov.

Hello Holly--

I see this OFTEN in breeder rescue ferrets - we have several here
that have displayed this pattern since spay -
I am wondering, how long has your ferret Butterscotch displayed
this behavior?
Has it been since a kit-- or has this behavior developed in the
last year or two?

Alicia