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| Ive been promising photos for ages, so here goes.... 5 Month Old Slink Playing with My Boyfriend's Workboots: 
Slinky Attack: 
And 'I'm No Dummy' : 
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| I am a firm believer that ferrets should get used to being collared - especially free roamong hearing impaired ferrets! Its always easiest if you start them out as youngsters getting used to a collar. But any animal can get used to wearing one if conditioned properly. Put a mear of your ferret's favorite ferret treat on a mat and let the ferret sniff it until it shows real interest in wanting to get to eat it. Now collar the ferret and let it eat the treat. Usually they willl be so intent on the treat they won't pay attention to the collar. WHen the ferret is done witht he treat, remove the collar. The time spent wearing the collar should get incrementally longer each time. Until eventually the ferret is wearing the collar most all of the time it is outside of its cage. The idea is to put the collar on and take it off without the ferret going nuts and succeeding in getting the collar off by itself! Once they figure out how they can do this it is almost impossible to keep just a collar on them - then you have to go to a whole harness. Personally I like to keep the collar adjusted snug enough to stay on through normal play, but if my ferret gets in a tight spot the collar will come off. I don't use those expandable cat collars because then I might as well not collar her. Some folks like the quick escape collars. A recommendation for proper fit is snug enough so that your little pinky can fit between the collar and the ferret's neck. I have 4 different collars currently and every so often I have to retreive them from under the sofa, or find them in the laundry pile! They really only stay on when she allows them to stay on! I like to hear the tinkle of her bell as she romps around the house. On more than one occassion when she has gone into "stealth mode" (collarless) she has almost become a flattened ferret!
Josie made me do it! I had to build this just for her! www.vanityferret.com [ ]
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| Im much the same way. I dont like the expandable collars... I feel those pose more of a threat catching somewhere or just sliding off. I had to special order the one she has on because the local stores didnt carry the regular snap ons. I keep it loose enough where I can fit two fingers under. Its hard to slip off her neck, but still loose enough to move and breath. The bell was the whole point of the collar originally. I like hearing where she is. After the first 24 hours where she discovered a hole under the cabinets, locating her at all times is a must! The tiny bell versus the ones the cats wear tells them all apart. I love the little tinkle as she runs and plays. The first day she had it on she ricocheted across the room insanely... she was absolutely freaked. When she finally fell asleep in her hamock, she fell out and scared herself half to death... it was almost straight off a cartoon.
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