change of behaviour brother and sister

[Guest little lurcher]

i did not breed these 2 but got them very young , both been handled from tiny , good as gold , 1 is up the road in a pet home totally spoilt and very well handled by adults and children , the owner went away on holiday and when she got back he turned nasty , we were handling daily still? he was at one point attcking the lady???

 

the next is his sister , in working home , regularly handled , fed from hand etc , been a pleasure to work but a little sharp when working , will fly her head round at you but hasnt bitten yet but threatenening to do so? her behaviour is getting more and more aggressive lately ?

 

any ideas why these 2 have changed this way?

 

my other ferrets are still very easy to do and lovely to handle , just these 2 from different breeding ??

 

 

any advice would be good thank you

[SEAN3513 7]

what age are they ???

[Guest little lurcher]

approx 18mths

[SEAN3513 7]

probably a change in hormone levels ( if they havn't been de-sexed) if their hormone levels have increased( can be genetic) they will become more aggresive.

 

sorry thats all i can suggest !?!

 

cheers

 

sean

[ulverston moocher 60]

For two ferrets to go vicious at 18 months old from bieng tame I would think it is genetic I have allways said that any ferret can be tamed down but I have just gave my mate a silver hob that will not tame and I was talking to the lad that bred him and he says the hole litter is like that and that my hob was better than most of the rest because of the amount of time I did put in with him but he was hit and miss one minute he would seem calm and ok then all of a sudden he would get hold of ya for no reason he wasnt frightened or any thing because he would climb up ya to bite just for the crack very unpredictable so my mate is going to have a go he has had him a fortnight and is getting pissed of with getting bit all the time now as well but said he will persevere.I would put it down to breeding mate I was allways told if you go to buy a ferret if the parents bite give them a wide birth but I think 99 percent of the time it is bad handaling on the owners part I allways breed my own ferrets and have been breeding and using the same line for 20years now and this hob was given to me as the lad got stuck with it and couldnt home it so I took it but from now on will just stick to my own I think.

[Guest little lurcher]

not so much vicious but very snappy and sharp ? both with 2 totally different owners but both well handled etc , strange?? my hobs are as soft as butter and ive not had ferrets that long but i still find this weird behaviour and would tend to think it must be in the breeding

[stealthy1 3,964]

Maybe they're being handled wrongly, I once new a lad who only picked his ferrets up by the scruff of the neck, never once bit him, said that was the way he was taught to pick ferrets up, when I picked them up I got chompped, a real pass the plasters situation

[Guest little lurcher]

no im still involved with both and thats not the case? really puzzling me tbh , i didnt breed them but know who did and they were both handled very ypoung by children , when i went to collect them they were running around by kids and even though the kids were fairly rough with them they still didnt bite

[mushroom 14,216]

If they can't be handled they are useless. Who in their right mind wants to risk getting nailed everytime they handle or work them

[riohog 5,939]

no im still involved with both and thats not the case? really puzzling me tbh , i didnt breed them but know who did and they were both handled very ypoung by children , when i went to collect them they were running around by kids and even though the kids were fairly rough with them they still didnt bite

think prhaps we better take some bandages next time tan....lol

[Guest little lurcher]

pmsl chutney had a good hold on you lol , these are the young ones mate? got bloody right nippy??? the jill still works well and the other lad is in a pet home but puzzling me and fella why they are like it? seems to be in the breeding somewhere

[riohog 5,939]

pmsl chutney had a good hold on you lol , these are the young ones mate? got bloody right nippy??? the jill still works well and the other lad is in a pet home but puzzling me and fella why they are like it? seems to be in the breeding somewhere

think it is in the breeding .. they are a smaller stamp,to your others ,these are the ones that came from a good working strain ..yeah ..just that bit more instinct in em !!

[Jamie m 668]

there could be a few reasons but till someone else has a look at them hard to say with just words, my hobs paying a lot of atention to the jills at the mo could be that they are geting frisky already, could be boredom i have experienced this with my pole jill i got in november nippy all the time but since shes had company my new jill and hob that were unwanted so i took em shes calmed right down handels really well just sugestions