Product Description

This lovable creature is on its way to being the third most popular companion animal after dogs and cats.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #463845 in Books
• Published on: 1996-11-19
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .77 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 128 pages

From Amazon.com
The Ferret is an extremely informative guide on ferret health and behavior that offers practical advice for potential ferret owners, emphasizing that they can be challenging pets. Despite this word of caution, the book is careful to emphasize that ferrets can also be highly entertaining and affectionate animals, and with an estimated seven million pet ferrets in the U.S. alone, it's obvious that pet lovers agree. The 13 chapters range from "Bringing Your Pet Home" to "Training and Socializing" and include tips on properly grooming your pet, signs of disease, and a discussion of how your ferret will interact with other pets. This is a fun read, chock full of ferret trivia and illustrated with full-color photographs of our furry friends frolicking, burrowing, and snuggling.

From the Back Cover
At last, a book about your pet that emphasizes total care, training and companionship! You'll not only learn all about the species-specific traits of your special pet, you'll also learn what the world's like from your pet's perspective; how to feed, groom and keep your pet healthy; and how to enjoy your pet through training and activities you can do together. The Ferret is written by an expert and includes chapters on training and socializing your ferret, legal issues surrounding ferrets, and introducing your ferret to family and friends. It also contains the latest information about ferret health issues, treatments, and cures. Best of all the book is filled with info-packed sidebars and fun facts to make caring for your pet easy and enjoyable.

About the Author
Mary R. Shefferman is the editor-in-chief and founder, with her husband, Eric, of Modern Ferret magazine, a publication "for ferret owners by ferret owners." She and Eric live in New York with their four inspirational ferrets.

Customer Reviews

A good started book
As a first time ferret owner, I bought this book. It was very helpful with tons of info. All thou not as impressive as the other ferret books, its good enough if your just starting out. You will find each book that is put out on ferrets to have somthing that the book before didnt have..

A nice book, but lacking....
I think the Sheffermans have wonderful writing skills in thier magazine, but it somehow doesn't work in a book. I found the book a nice addition to my collection of ferret books, as well as pretty enjoyable to read once through. I just felt it was a little lacking in depth for a ferret book. It's a good begginer book, but I think anyone with many years of ferret experience wouldn't find this book as helpful or appealing.

Ferret Mania!
I checked out several books on ferrets from the library, and then bought this one. I felt it contained all of the useful, general information a ferret fancier needed. Since I had never owned a ferret when I first owned the book, it answered all of my basic questions. Later as I became more experienced with my pets, I still found useful tips for strange behaviours, suggested treats, etc. Between this book, and the alt.pets.ferrets Usenet group, you'll have all the advice you need to have healthy happy little bouncies!