The female ones don’t smell too bad - ‘rodenty’ but not too pungent.
The males are extremely whiffy. Very musky, akin to BO, gets into everything.
My grandad used to keep them as working ferrets, for flushing rabbits out of their warrens, and fed them on leftover rabbit carcasses. You could smell that from quite a distance.
The babies are incredibly cute - size of your thumb, very soft. The adults are also cute, but have sharp claws and a nasty bite when they’re annoyed. They’re faster than you might expect, too - can really cover the distance when they get their bounce on.
They smell kinda like the ditch part of ditch weed, or maybe an old man’s cologne without the smell pretty part just the old dusty part but also without the “smells like sick” that you may be associating with old people. They’re earthy and musky. One of my roommates said they smell like raw sugar without the sweet. Ferrets I’ve had were descented idk what one with it’s glands intact smells like
What do they smell like?
I’ve always heard that ferrets stink but have never smelt any
The female ones don’t smell too bad - ‘rodenty’ but not too pungent.
The males are extremely whiffy. Very musky, akin to BO, gets into everything.
My grandad used to keep them as working ferrets, for flushing rabbits out of their warrens, and fed them on leftover rabbit carcasses. You could smell that from quite a distance.
The babies are incredibly cute - size of your thumb, very soft. The adults are also cute, but have sharp claws and a nasty bite when they’re annoyed. They’re faster than you might expect, too - can really cover the distance when they get their bounce on.
They smell kinda like the ditch part of ditch weed, or maybe an old man’s cologne without the smell pretty part just the old dusty part but also without the “smells like sick” that you may be associating with old people. They’re earthy and musky. One of my roommates said they smell like raw sugar without the sweet. Ferrets I’ve had were descented idk what one with it’s glands intact smells like