"FerretDad" wrote in message news:518A8866...@ferret.org...
>Tristan Miller wrote:
>> I've got the same problem. I've had ferrets for ten years, some of
>> which bit at first, but they always dropped the habit after at most a
>> few weeks of training. However, now we've got one who bites hard
>> and deep, won't let go, and starts chewing.
>
> Hi ferret folks. Didn't get to see the video as my old software won't
> do >Youtube. My current ferrets only play bite so no worries.
Too bad. The longer version Tristan found was better than the one I ran
across, and was quite funny.
> I did have an old one once, Fred, that would bite hard and not let go.
> I had warning though....he would lick and lick a spot on my arm, then bite
>down.
It's funny, now you mention it, but the reason I and my kids can handle
Barnabas is because he usually telegraphs that he's going to bite. He opens
his mouth in slow motion, move his teeth to his chosen location, also in
slow motion, the snaps his jaws shut. Not always, unfortunately, so we
still get bit occasionally, but by far the majority of the time he does the
slow motion thing.
> He wouldn't chew, he just bit hard and wouldn't let go. He seemed to
>go into a trance.
This boy definitely chews. But he'll wait, clamped on, for a few seconds
before he starts chewing. The "wait calmly" method doesn't work with him.
> eheheh I sure miss that boy. He remains my all time favorite
> companion.
Yes. And I'll miss Barney when he goes. He bites, and it hurts and leaves
scars. But he's also got his own distinct personality. I've never seen a
ferret spend so much time awake. All the others over the years, and the
other two now, sleep eighteen or more hours a day. But this guy probably
sleeps more like fourteen or fifteen hours a day. He's often up during the
middle of the day or night whereas the others are almost always only up
around dawn and dusk, as/per normal ferret behavior.
- Bill