From:
Mrs_Catseye@hotmail.com
Date: 2003-02-27 15:04:20 UTC
Subject: Lights on-or-off for ferrets
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <15925256.1046358260842.JavaMail.root@scandium>
My name is Susie Lee-Hurley, my husband, Wes and I have been keeping two rooms for our thirty-plus ferrets for over a year, and, before that, we had just one room of our house for the (then-less-than-thirty-plus) ferrets.
Having first noted the article regarding light and ferrets as shown in miamifereet.org's ferret health, we decided to just allow them night-time-dark(AND quiet!) time, with our own occasional turnings-on of the overhead light for just checking on them or my taking out an insulinomic, or ulcer-affected, or very elderly and weak ferret out for middles-of-the-night feeding turns to the kitchen and then tucking all my "feeders" back in. We do most of our cage-cleanings, care and letting all of them out and about for playtimes during the day. Then, at nights, everyone is accounted-for, tucked in, and comfortably snoozy as best we can do for them.
By and large, over the last five years, allowing them all their adequate time in a dark, quiet room has been very beneficial, for even those who have either come in or come down with adrenal tumors may show other symptoms, but not aggressiveness or much hyperactivity.
You can see some of them, including our current eldest,
Molly Blue-Angel, who is 10 years and two months old, today, and still spryly on her feet, here...
http://www.angelfire.com/theforce/ferret_rescuer/index.html
Thank you.