>Subject: Do Ferrets Pant?
>... Well we have another new male 3 month old we welcomed last week and
>this guy plays a little and starts to pant like a dog or in other words he
>breaths real heavy when playing and then stops all of a sudden, is this
>normal?
 
Out of our four ferrets, only one of them makes a panting sound like you
describe.  That would be Cameron, who (we think) is the eldest of the bunch.
(He was rescued from a highway, so we don't know exactly how old he is.) He
makes it on and off when playing, and also when we're cuddling him in our
arms.  We've come to interpret it as a sound of contentment.
 
Vesna Kovach
 
Ferris: <dig, dig, dig...FERRIS!! NO!>
Beulah: hisss...
Cameron: hhhh-hhh, hhhh-hhh, hhhh-hhh....
Corky: <scamper, scamper>
[Posted in FML issue 2097]