I know this has been discussed time and time again.  I've been to the FML
archives and all the ferret web pages.
 
I recently acquired 2 kittens that someone left on the hillside where
I live.  They are the sweetest kittens, very clean, healthy, sweet
diposition.  They have won my heart.  However, the supervision between
ferrets and kittens is wearing me out.  I feel so guilty after letting the
ferrets out for a play when I find myself getting tired of supervising
them.  I end up putting one or the other in a room and shutting the door
just for some peace.  They have not had any fights, but I just can't trust
them not to nip at one of the kittens.  I have four ferrets, and all four
have this look on their face and go into this "snoop look" where their
noses are in constant snoop stage.  They don't even care about raisins when
the kittens are around.  I have never heard so much dooking in my life.  My
sweet boy Whiskers is the only one I think I can at this point trust not to
go after one of them.  The others act like they will bite them hard if I
let them near them.  I have held them both in my arms (not knowing I did
this, thinking I had 2 ferrets, not a kitten and a ferret) and they have
not attacked each other.  I'm doing the supervised play stuff and being
patient.  I feel so guilty when I have to put the ferrets back into their
room because I just can't take it.
 
Sorry to beat a dead horse, but can anyone give me advice to make this
easier?
 
Mindy in West Virginia with . ..
Whiskers, Tiny, Cocoa and Tigger (the ferrets)
Shadow and Prince (the kittens)
Patch (the guinea pig)
[Posted in FML issue 3101]