Help with aggressive ferret?

Question

he bites & sometimes brings blood. He attacks my mother, neobors, an my own feet. sometimes he even bites when i try to feed him. Tips please on how to stop this.

Answer 1

r u his first owner?

If not then he is angered for sum reason!
R u giving him enough of the right attention??
This is the first time i've heard of an aggressive ferret!
R u sure he's just not playing roughly??

My first ferret played ruff and used to do stuff like this... pick him up & c if he calms down!!!

Answer 2

Oh my what some answers........I take it he is not getting a lot of play time outside his cage if he is biting everyone. Well, honestly that could be part of the problem. When ferrets do not get the attention and exercise they need they will sometimes act out... kinda of like a young child. Now, ferrets also play like kittens....they are pretty mouthy. When you are playing with your baby make sure when he starts to bite you stop everything. Don't yell or yank back, just be very still and stop playing with him until he lets go. He will learn that you stop when he bites and since he doesn't want you to stop playing this can help. Now, if you are ignoring him and he wants your attention he will probably go after your feet. Some people think that this behavior is aggressive but it is not. Ferrets hop, hiss, and giggle when they are excited and happy. To someone who doesn't know about ferrets this can be kinda intimidating.
Now, one a different note......ferrets can get a disease called adrenal disease....this screws up there hormones and can cause them to be aggressive. This disease can be treated. So, is your baby getting enough playtime? Is your baby losing any hair or weight???
My advice is make sure your ferret is not sick before you just assume it is behavioral. A trip to the Vet can determine this. If it is behavioral........try to remember that you are dealing with a very energetic creature that needs to be in a social environment to be happy.. Good luck

Answer 3

Section: Stop Ferrets From Biting

Bare feet can attract a playful ferret like roses attract bees. And more than one ferret owner has stepped out of the shower and right into an ambush – a musky little friend lying in wait to attack the toes!

It’s not a spiteful attack; it's what passes for ferret fun, especially when his owner starts hopping around on one foot yelling “Ow!” But it is also annoying – not to mention painful. And when the ferret is angry or frightened and really does mean for his bite to hurt, it’s even worse.

Ferrets are armed with needle-sharp teeth and while the incidence of serious ferret bites is infinitesimally low compared to dog bites – the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association has estimated there are an average of 12 ferret bites per year that require medical treatment – biting is certainly a habit any ferret-owner wants to discourage.

Flick on the Nose Won’t Work

Yet the most common form of ferret discipline – a quick flick on the nose when your pet is misbehaving – may do more harm than good, warn ferret experts.

“What’s the first thing you do when something hurts you?” asks Randy Horton, director of the Especially Ferrets ferret shelter in suburban Denver, Colo., and a longtime rehabilitator of biting ferrets. “When a mosquito bites, what the first thing you do? Smack it. A lot of people have a tendency to smack ferrets, to flick them on the nose and tell them they’re a bad ferret. But these are bad things to do, especially to a young ferret who nips you in play,” he says. “Playful biting can turn into anger biting.”

Why Ferrets Bite

Horton suggests that ferret owners whose pets are becoming problem nippers first determine the reason for the biting. If the target is your hand, there’s a good chance your ferret is frightened of human hands. Perhaps human hands have caused your ferret considerable pain in the past. If so, your ferret needs a lot of reassurance and positive reinforcement.

In addition to fear biting, ferrets may bite out of anger or to protect their space. “If you stick your hand in their hidey-hole, nine times out of 10 you’ll get bitten, because it’s THEIR hidey-hole,” Horton warns.

The key to changing a nippy ferret’s behavior is to take away his motivation to bite. He bites because biting gets results – that scary, annoying hand goes away. But if biting brings no results at all, the ferret will soon stop biting, Horton says.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

You are going to have to get rid of that one. Some are vicious like the one you describe. Others, however, seem very inquisitive and gentle.

Answer 6

Give him away and get a new ferret!

Answer 7

how old is he? if hes youns tap his nose and say NO the put him in a cage they hate to be ignored good luck it worked for me

Answer 8

feed him to a python. He will stop I swear it

Answer 9

get a muzzle or buy a new one