Training Your Pet Ferret to Use a Litter Box

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Hi there! I’m Fran Freedman of Morning Starr Animal Sanctuary, and I’m here to tell you about litter pans and litter training on behalf of expertvillage.com. Ferrets definitely require special litter. We have here an example of pine pellets. You can get some called Good News, they’re green and they’re old newspaper. They can not use cat littler, which was used years ago, as it is toxic to them, especially the ones with the scents in them. It also can cause upper respiratory disease from the dust. This is pretty much dust free. When it gets wet it just dissolves down to a fine kind of…almost like a saw dust. It’s easy to clean out and empty, smells nice piney when you’re finished doing the litters. Litter pans, this is the usual litter pan size for a ferret. Depending on the cage, as you can see here, there is corner litters, this one here. The corner litters have little notches on the back so that when you put them in they hook on. Ferrets do not like things against the wall. Even these ones, I usually drill two holes and put a twist tie and keeps it against the wall. There is also this one which is called a high back litter. These are great because ferrets tend to go in, back up, and lift their butts and on a shorter litter pans, they tend to go over. Just so you know, ferrets are never 100% litter trained. You can try with repetition, by when they wake up putting them into the litter pan and just keep putting them back there until they go in there, and that will help with litter training but there is always mistakes. This cage here has 4 litter boxes and they still manage to find a spot that they like to go better than where I put the litter boxes. You can even make your own litter boxes out of Tupperware containers and cut out the sides. When we have an elderly ferret, we like to use ones like this that are shorter so that it’s easy for them to get into.

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