Dear Tammi, and all others who may be having a similar problem with an
aggressor.
 
This is Edward at Ferrets NorthWest responding to your plea for help,
regarding the difficult relationship between your two ferts.
 
I should like to suggest that you first get both ferts hooked on Ferretone,
if they are not already crazy about this oil mixture.
 
The quickest way to do this is to scruff the fert that has not yet developed
a taste preference for the Ferretone, suspending the scruffed fert
completely off the ground, so that it is suspended in midair.
 
Drizzle Ferretone into the scruffed ferret's mouth, especially as it yawns.
Hold on very tightly at this introduction, because the sudden infusion of FT
may cause a highly distressed reaction of the fert to the sudden and new
taste of a foreign substance into its mouth or on its muzzle.
 
You should be able to tell fairly quickly when the fert has accepted the FT
and is eagerly licking for more.  Then relax the fert from the scruff so
that all four paws are on the table top.  Give a few more drops of FT from
the bottle directly to the fert's tongue.  Then, pick up the fert and cuddle
it in the crook of your arm, add a few drops of FT into the FLATTENED palm
of your other hand, so that the fert can lick this oil from your opened
palm.
 
Repeat this palm licking by the fert four or five times during the day,
being alert to the reaction of the fert as all the FT is licked off your
palm, since the fert may be inclined to chew on your hand, for the avowed
purpose of possibly getting additional FT, especially if you cup your hand
and the FT is concentrated in the folds of your palm skin.  Keep you palm
fully opened, so that there are no skin folds.
 
Just one or two drops on the palm of your hand for the fert to lick is all
you'll probably need.  It has been reported that FT in excess of one
tablespoon per 24 hour period may produce liver toxicity, so be a little
niggardly in dispensing the FT.
 
During the palm licking episodes, support your fert high upon your chest
with your forearm, all the while talking profusely to the fert.  The fert
should be able to smell your breath, while simultaneously getting your
highly specific skin scent from your palm, listening to the individual
characteristics of your voice signature, feeling the warmth of your body,
possibly your heart beat, and the overall scent of your clothes and hair.
However, on the first few encounters, be alert to a possible chin nip from
the fert after all the FT has been licked away.  Interestingly enough, the
fert will usually continue licking other parts of your hand/fingers where
there was no FT, assumedly as the taste of the FT on its tongue is absorbed.
Be alert here, also, for the possibility of a nip.
 
After both ferts are "addicted" to FT, then repeat the above procedure with
both ferts simultaneously licking from your hand or from the bottle of FT.
The two ferts should be held side by side, parallel to each other, and not
facing each other.  It is helpful if another person can assist you at this
time, perhaps by dispensing the FT.
 
It is not uncommon for the two ferts to lick each other's muzzles after most
of the FT is gone.  Encourage this to the greatest extent possible, even if
it means squirting a surplus of FT on the table/floor.  Repeat this
procedure several times daily.
 
Lastly, allow the two ferts freedom of access to each other, but only after
drizzling copious quantities of FT on the backs of their necks and only
after you rub it into their back-neck fur with your fingers, so that the FT
actually coats the skin as well as the fur.  As a consequence of this FT
application where they would ordinarily take a purchase of each other in the
fighting mode, they will likely damn near kiss each other to death!  No.
Not really; I'm just kidding.
 
By the way, in the interim, it would be beneficial if you were to
alternately cage each individual ferret in the same cage, while allowing the
second fert complete freedom outside of that cage.  Then, switch them
several times a day.
 
Good luck.  Let me know how this technique works for you, please.
 
Edward Frettchenvergnuegen Lipinski,
Der Frettchen Meister von Mercer Inselreich,
Der Staat Washingon,
Die Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika
[Posted in FML issue 2073]