What does it mean when a baby ferret nibbles an older ferrets ear?
baby ferrets tend to be very nippy in general, but the chewing on of another ferret’s ear should be discouraged. No matter what the reason is, he’s not getting anything out of it, AND it is annoying the other ferret, so it should be stopped. You don’t want them to start fighting either. I have two ferrets. When we got the first one, she was about 11 months old and was used to having another ferret (an older one) around. We kept her by herself for a while, and she got used to that, she also got less energetic (she didn’t want to play all the time; she used to barely sleep and always wanted to play). We finally got a second ferret about 8 months later, and he was still a baby. He wanted to play all the time, and annoyed the now older first ferret. She was annoyed by him, but put up with the harrassment for a while. One night we heard what sounded like little squeeling, and when we looked at the ferrets, the older one had gotten fed up with the annoyance and bitten the younger ones ear. S
