Doesn't like toys or treats?

[kierunatsuki]

So i found out within about 4 hours of first getting Monday, she she has in interest in ANY toys or treats. She likes her kibble and only her kibble. She has multiple jingle balls, she supposedly likes water bottles, and she has a few other little toys. The ONLY thing she'll play with? An empty cardboard box.

For those of you with picky fuzzbabies, what works for you? I think she's mostly deaf, so noisy toys don't work well. Except she tries playing with plastic bags that crinkle

Any suggestions for toys and treats?

[sherrylynne]

Toys: interactive ones are always preferred, I've found. I have about 1/2 dozen different cat teaser toys. Different ferrets prefer different teasers Towel rides are always a favourite here, whether they are on the towel alone, or wrestling with friends on it. It can take a while to get them used to it. Just drag a big bath towel, and see if she'll jump on it. If not, pick her up and place her on the towel while your dragging it.
Shaking a towel over their heads is always a success. So is "chase". With ALL of mine, though- they get to "catch" me, but I'm not allowed to "catch" them
Dig boxes are another good one. You can use almost anything in these. From rice, to shredded paper, to plastic eggs, plastic bags(always cut the handles, and only use under supervision), towels/old clothes, basically anything you can think of!
Hand wrestling with a towel, stuffed animal.
For treats, they really don't need them, but mine love salmon oil, freeze dried treats, and jerkies. Again- different ferts prefer different treats.

[kierunatsuki]

Haha that riding game she already does. I've found she loves plastic bags, loves playing inside them, and being dragged on the them. I'll have to see if stuffed toys interest her at all. She also plays with dangly things like you said, but her interest doesn't last very long with them. The only times she LOVES chase is with a human partner, or with her plastic bag.

And i know they don't need treats, i just like spoiling my furbabies

[maddiesmommy]

ha sounds like me when i first got my fuzzie maddie. she likes the towel game where i shake the towel around her head she jumps after it. she also likes bowls that she can fit in like containers where her whole entire body goes through and maddie LOVES LOVES LOVES plastic bags shell stay in there for hours

ocasionally if i throw one of her balls at the wall shell chase it then steal it and put it under my boyfriends bed.

were planning on getting her a dig box and filling it up with balled up newspapers since she loves that as well. most toys your ferret will love is toys that you make up like chase for example we play that with her all the time even though we never catch her she seems to always get us lol.

[mjohn143]

Badger is probably the pickiest ferret I know. It has been almost a YEAR of trying to switch her, and I still don't think she is close. She doesn't like ANY treats except Nutri-Cal, which is bad for them, and of course her kibble. I went the longest time trying unsuccessfully at finding toys she would enjoy. Finally I have found a feather cat teasers and little balls made out of dyed rabbit fur (about .45 cents) are her favorite. She loves bags and boxes as well.

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This is similar to her new favorite toy. It is made of real fur, sad I know but oh well, and it rattles when you shake it. She loves to run around and do a 'kill shake' on it. It is pretty big too lol.

I have also found with Badger that she requires lots of personal attention from me. She isn't content like my other 2 just playing with toys or them. She likes to play with toys with me. So, maybe your little fuzzy is the same way. Don't give up, it literally took me about a year of wasted toys (well not wasted bc the other enjoy them) to find something she liked.

[nibblesandspazz]

I thought I would never find a toy my little boy likes without me playing with him, but after 3 years I have found something he does nuts over...plastic cups. he will walk around for several minutes with a cup on his head. when the cup falls off he puts it back on. He will only play with cups that will stay on his head for more than 5 seconds at a time and clear ones seem to be his favorite. I let him play with the plastic cups from laundry detergent after I rinse them out. They are wide enough I dont have to worry about his head getting stuck, and I picked up some I got some tumblers from the dollar store for him. I poked a decent size hole in the tumblers and I take those out of his cage when I am not home. He also likes a dog stuffed rope toy, but only if it is hanging in the cage or i am playing with him. if its laying on the ground he ignores it

[sherrylynne]

Hi, there! Thought you'd totally abandoned us You do realize you've got to post pics of his cup obsession

[xeopse]

I second the plastic cups! Even Lulabelle who doesn't like any toys at all (she will occasionally play in a plastic bag) or treats but she likes the plastic Solo cups sometimes. ANthing she can crawl into she just falls asleep... she is so low key it's crazy. She is more of a sniffer/wanderer than a playful ferret. She just moseys around getting into stuff and checking it all out then she crawls into something and falls asleep which is when I can never find her because she's deaf.

I also find that if you take away all distractions, she will RUN. I found that out when I took her down a long hallway in my building - there is nothing but carpet and occasional wood pillars and some welcome mats. THat's it. This is the one and only place she will war dance, and this is the one and only place I can get her to run and around and get herself going. She also LOVES to go up and down the stairs, she flies! Then she walks back in the apartment and hangs out again LOL I dunno why she does that.

[sherrylynne]

It's possible that there is so much around her(in her opinion) that it's overwhelming. So...she shuts down. When there is nothing around her, she feels free to be herself
I've worked with a lot of down's kids who are the same way