You hear this tosh on hear from time to time , well perhaps their wild cousins , but the domesticated working ferret nope , if you could of seen the big fella last night when I put him back in with the group , now he's out of season leaping around like a twelve week old kit absolutely full of joy tearing around playfully attacking the new recruits much to the discust of the older jills : ) ,far from solitary , you see this solidarity in the wild ones is nearly survival much easier in the long winter to feed ones mouth than it would to share with a family group, only reason I can see that they