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@why-animals-do-the-thing is this safe for the ferrets? are they okay?

Well, I’m going to preface this with that we’ve determined with past posts that ferrets are my weak spot. So before you take me at my word let’s get some ferret-follower input.

I think it looks fine, honestly. The eggs are larger than their heads so there’s no ingestion risk, and it looks like good enrichment. Those motions are happy weird ferret play movements. My only question would be if there’s a problem with that many being in one place – I have no idea how ferret social structures work past bonded pairs – but I don’t see any red flags, so at least this instance looks good.

Somebody check me?

This is the BEST (people honestly worry about the weirdest things with ferrets haha what is there to worry about here??? Why are people worried???)

Anyways, plastic eggs are perfectly fine in play bins like this. I’d personally tape them shut because some ferrets pop them open and then chew on them, but ferret owners need to know their ferrets.

I counted ten ferrets, which is fine for a playgroup. In general for HOUSING ferrets you don’t want to get past six in one adequately (read: BIG) cage. This could very well be two groups of ferrets that play well with each other. And trust me, you cannot have two ferrets or gods forbid two ferret groups that hate each other out tgether – anarchy and possibly carnage WILL happen. It doesn’t happen often, however because during the process of domestication humans have bred for ferrets that have more kit-like personalities. Wild polecats become solitary as they age, but our domestic ferrets have been bred to be social critters. That’s why they get along so well with each other and why they can bond so well with humans. Occasionally you have throwbacks to the solitary temperament, and ferrets have differing personalities, but usually you can put groups of ferrets together for playtime with little issue.

I wouldn’t exceed 12 ferrets in a playgroup, however, mainly because of size constraints. You’d need plenty of room to roam, play, and also have room for the ferrets to go when they’re tired and want to get away from the others. Ferrets get cranky and larger groups make it harder to provide enough room for both play and rest.

Anyways, plastic eggs are great as they are plastic, not easily chewed unless you have a plastic chewed, and colorful so they really are a treat for the ferret’s vision. (Ferrets see red especially well from what I remembr, and also contrasting colors, like White and black stripes or such). Other good choices for playpens are edible/digrstible packing peanuts (ONLY UNDER SUPERVISION if the ferrets start eating them they need to be taken away, plant matter is not good for ferrets), ping pong balls (these are especially great in water pools) and rice for dig boxes (smelly ferrets smell nice and fresh after a dig in the rice box).