Do ferrets prefer hot or cold temperatures?
Ferrets do not have a very efficient body cooling system and react badly and quickly to too much heat. Death from heat stroke is a very real possibility. Ferrets ideally like to be below about 20C (70F). Heat exhaustion can occur when sun shines into a room through a glass window, or directly onto the roof of a hutch. In the summer it is very important to makes sure that they can cool down, and since they can not sweat, simply blowing a fan over them is not enough, the air blowing over them must physically be cooler than 20C to actually cool them. Things like placing a freezer block in a towel in the cage, and changing it regularly, fresh cool water to paddle in, and spraying a mist of water onto their coats are all ways to help keep them cool, but require regular human intervention. Ours have a portable Air Conditioning unit in the summer. Cold is less of an issue, as long as they have somewhere snug, dry and sheltered to curl up in, ferret seem to have no trouble keeping warm. Genera
