I hope you’re ready for a whole bunch of great ferret facts.  It’s always interesting to know the quirks of different pets and the Ferret has a fun and thriving history. Hopefully you found them as interesting as I do.

You can use them for your own interest or to quiz your friends and family on. Let’s dive right in…

- A male ferret is called a Hob where as a female ferret is called a Jill. Baby ferrets are known as Kits (or kittens).

- It’s very possible to train a ferret. They have been used in hunting, to carry wires along pipes on oil rigs, and even ferret racing. So training your ferret use his litter box and not to bite should be no sweat. To discover how to train your ferret check out… Awesome Ferret Blog

- Ferrets have an average length of roughly 20 inches. However Hobs (Males) can be twice as big as Jills (Females).

- Like Tigers ferrets are carnivores. Ferrets eat 95% protein and shouldn’t be fed much fibre!

- Warning! Do do not try this at home: Ferret Legging was a distant Pub game played in England. Each man fastens their trousers tightly aroung his ankles and at his waist with a ferret inside of them. The man would almost certainly be repeatedly bitten. The one who lastest the most time with the ferret down their was the winner!

- They may have poor vision, but they have fantastic smelling and hearing abilities.

- Ferrets are called Mustela Putorius Furo in Latin. See if you can remember that in a day or so!

- Ferret litters will typically produce around seven babies, although can rise to twelve on occasion! Now that’s a lot of Kits!

- A ferret can live for eight years or more! So you should enjoy a good number of years with your ferrets!

- It’s thought that ferrets came from North Africa and have been domestic for nearly 2000 years!

- The 1200′s bought the inclusion of a ferreter into the Royal Court of England. In fact it become the fashion for high ranking clergymen to own ferrets!

- Like dogs ferrets can do all sorts of tricks! You can train a ferret to go fetch small things for you, do a roll over, or work it’s way through a tunnel maze. You can find out how to do this by clicking here: Easy Ferret Training

- Bathing a ferret too much actually makes them smell worse! This may also dry out the oils from the fur and irritate their skin!

I hope you enjoyed these ferrets facts.You’ll find ferret facts everywhere! An example of this that you might not know is that ferrets are close relatives of the skunk? Which is where the smell is from, Haha.

If you want to discover even more about great ferret care check this out:… Ferret Guide