From:
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Date: 2005-10-23 23:51:56 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] Taking kits away from mum at 2-3 weeks of age?
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
I would imagine that with ferrets being gregarious little animals you
would notice little change, socially, with a baby ferret if reared right
when taken away as a small kit. What information is there about this?
However, after raising a kitten from the age of 2 weeks, with no other
cats or kittens to play with it, it patterned after humans. This happens,
and mentally, cats and some other animal will have developmental
differences in their social behavior, different from what a non-rescued
kitten or animal would have, if given social interaction with their own
kind. They can get anger management issues, anxiety, lonliness, and
agression problems.
Meow played with my hand instead of kittens, and he thinks this is
appropriate adult behavior, so I get bitten a lot. He thinks it's okay to
be a human, and does not take us telling him to do anything. He has
moodswings and baby fits. He is basically a two year old.
He will walk up and hit you if he's in a bad mood; it's weird.
Of course not all cats will be this way but many can turn out that way if
they are not exposed to their own kind, or at least, baby animals of SOME
kind. I have often wondered what ferrets reared without ferrets, would do,
behaviorally, differently.
Of course, Meow thinks he's a ferret and likes some/hates some because he
was raised around 4 ferrets at the time. One mothered him until he
screamed, dragging him under furniture if I didn't watch him. Of course,
she was just being a good mommy LOL....
xxxxxxx
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