Post by bigsis7 on Sept 27, 2008 16:36:27 GMT -5
Ok, so when we got Chewie it was so we could have an awesome pet for everyone and for Oliver to have someone to play with. It hasn't turned out that way, but I could manage for a few months until the lupron kicked in right? Well I'm afraid Chewie might have a mental problem going on. That his past may have been worse than I thought. Maybe it's just the adrenal, but I'm not so sure. Every time that we take him out of the cage we try to play with him. Sometimes he does other times he doesn't. Well today my sister tried to play with him he wasn't interested. Well she was just standing watching him run around when he hissed and started biting her leg and going after it!! She of course jerked her leg away, but he kept to it. It didn't draw blood, but it left marks. This isn't the first time. I was trying to play with him one day and he bit me (I had stopped trying to play with him for 5 minutes and just let him wander around). So I scruffed him and put him in his cage for a while. I got him back out and the same exact thing happened. He's done this to by brother and dad too. Also he has some weird snacking habits that worry me...Chewie eats almost twice as much as Oliver, yet also eats his bedding, poop, and paper! I think there is something wrong here, but don't know what it could be? Does anyone have any ideas?
You mention that he will snuggle for a time and then bite. Could you possibly be misreading his body signals? I have a little boy who loves to snuggle, but will become overstimulated and his reaction to this is to bite and bite hard. One minute he's a loving furbaby then next a raving maniac. Scruffing only aggravates the issue. The more he's caged the more aggressive he becomes (he gets bored, he's a very active ferret). I've had him for a little over a month, he will definitely be a work in progress. He runs free, and gets grabbed for quick snuggles. He's is just now starting to make friends with the business, but not well. He prefers to sleep by himself. When I first got him he would hide to go to sleep, never ever would I find him in the sleep boxes or any place accessible that he couldn't make sure he wasn't attacked. The positions that he chose to sleep were easily defended. He still attacks without reason or so it seems, but I'm sure he has his reasons. He's deaf, and he attacks when startled but that isn't the only time. He has no idea how to behave toward people or other ferrets and misreads body language of both humans and ferrets. A ferret who has spent too much time locked up in a cage. When we first got him, a friendly hand was bitten, feet and legs were attached. It was almost like if he got his bites in then you would stay away from him, you wouldn't hurt him. I don't know his past. He was turned into me, from a lady who rescued him out of kindness and then couldn't deal with him. She was given little information and I don't think any of the information that she would have been given would have been true anyway so what little there was doesn't really matter. I believe from the responses that I got and continue to get from him, he was likely abused by a previous owner, who probably didn't understand the lively little fuzzy that they got was deaf and couldn't hear them when they yelled at him.