Grace - It could be that your ferret just sits funny.  Boomer will sit like
a dog when he's eating or watching TV (he like Wild Kingdom - he tries to
talk to the meercats).  We think it's because his butt is so big, he gets
tired of holding it up.  ;)
 
I may get flamed for this, but here's how we cured Boomer of biting too
hard.  (works for dogs, too) Every time he bit too hard, we said "NO!" and
bit HIM - not hard enough to hurt (although he wasn't that considerate),
just hard enough to be uncomfortable.  It took about a week and he was
convinced.  He's never had a problem since.
 
Jason & Heidi - Both of our weasels go through digging spurts where they
simply must dig, something, anything.  Sometimes the easiest thing to do is
just let them get it out of their system - fill a cardboard box with dirt,
leaves, shredded paper, whatever, and let them go to town.  If you must know
how spoiled our ferrets are, they've got a plastic box filled with potting
soil, and get to dig in there before they get baths.  So every time they
hear the bathtub fill, they run to the closet where the dirt is.  They love
it - chirps, chatters, hisses, dooks, wardances, the whole works.  Very
entertaining to the humans, too.
 
Thanks to whoever posted the Ben-Gay tip concerning pooty in the corners.
Boomer always leaves one right by the front door.  (marking his territory?)
I'm going to try this, as I'm not impressed with stepping in pooty when I
come home.  So, if it doesn't work, and he DOES squat in the same corner,
will his butt go numb??
 
Tanya, Bongo ("I'm the good one - always in the litterbox.")
Boomer("Wow, now I REALLY have droopy butt!")
[Posted in FML issue 1745]