Regina Hart wrote:
 
>Keep their bedding very clean by changing it at least once per week.  By
>bedding, I mean old t-shirts, blankies, towels,
 
I change the bedding in our fert's cages out 3-4 times a week.
 
>Keep the litter box very clean by scooping it at least once per day and
>changing it as often as needed.  I highly recommend some kind of
>pelleted litter rather than clay or clumping litter.
 
I also scoop litter boxes twice a day.  Pelleted hardwood litter is, i kid
you not, unpleasant-odor-free.  I swear up and down that it is.  Even a
completely loaded, dirty, three ferrets and whole days' worth of poopy
litter box is less stinky than one toe on a ferret in that cage, as long as
you're using wood stove pellet litter.  Potpie uses clumping litter and her
box is always slightly fragrant, but I can never smell anything but a 'wood'
smell from the other box.
 
I sweep regularly, I wipe down the floors of the cages regularly, and I
change out towels and bedding at least every other day or two.  If you're in
the ferret room, you can smell the ferrets, but the rest of the apartment
doesn't have any ferret smell to it whatsoever.  Adequate ventilation in the
ferrets' room ensures that room is not overwhelmingly ferrety.
 
Melissa
 
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