Nona,
Sounds like a hormone thing to me. Bart used to "love" Victoria a little too much sometimes. He'd drag her around by the scruff or ear or something, and she'd squeal, but SHE ASKED FOR IT!

She used to play "bull-dozer" with him by putting her head down and repeatedly charging him till he would be mean to her. Like so many goofy females today (present company excepted), she LIKED being abused or something.

He would lay in the hammock and chew/suck her little white ear till it was red and bleeding. I loved 'em both, but sometimes I would have to side with one and discipline one if they were hurting the other.

It's funny how, when you scruff and hiss one for doing something they KNOW they are not supposed to do, how they will do anything to keep from looking you in the eyes! Just like a guilty child.

I think that, even though they had been fixed, they still have sex drive, but they just don't quite know what to do with it. One day I looked in and Vicky was upside down and Bart had his paws holding around her waist and he was just uh... She seemed happy.

BTW, at least here in America, there are other products by other companies that are almost identical to Ferretone. For the record, Ferretong smells like Vinilla extract. What does nutrigel smell like?

Albino girls might seem sweet, but NoNo is still a spitfire. She still bites from time to time.

Gary

Actually Mojo does that bulldozer thing to Angus too! She just will not run away when he's trying to tell her to back off and sometimes I sympathise with him as she can be a very annoying little girl

Nutrigel smells a bit like a heavy maple syrup or something like that. It's quite a rich "dark" smell. Nutrigel is similar (I think) to your Nutri-Cal.

Josh - I have been looking around all the health food shops/chemists in the neighbourhood to find flaxseed oil and the only bottles I can get my hands on are capsules. I had this mad idea that I should get a bottle of capsules and cut each one in half and transfer the liquid into a small jar but the shine soon went off that idea

Webgrampy has ordered me to put Angus on the "naughty mat" when he starts getting really nasty with Mojo so the moment it's obvious that he's getting too rough with her, I scruff him and do my best impersonation of a ferret mom hissing at him, then put him in the cat carrier which is in the study, so he has time out for 15 minutes.

Some days he seems to understand that it's punishment and if he comes out and goes for Mojo again, all I have to do is yell NO at him and he stops. Other days he just doesn't care and seems to pick on her harder, as if to punish her for his time out!

Perhaps I should just order flaxseed oil online instead of schlepping all over the place here!

Aaargh! Now Angus is jumping on Kahlua and getting feral with her! Boy, you should hear how she screams when that happens - it really is blood curdling!

He's been put in the carrier basket to cool off - I hope he understands why and stops being such an awful bully! Mojo can defend herself, more or less, but poor old Kahlua can't

I know how you feel Nona, it's stressful for us humans too when they go at each other like that.
Flex and Snoop both guys used to do that... first playing and all fun and then they would be like a ball
of ferret going for each other's throat. All of a sudden it stopped... and they are mates now.
For a while the entire group was one, but the young guys did this to the older girls and Xena almost
paid the price for that with stress so since then I have 2 groups.

I now have 2 cats who are like that and I will be very happy when little Billy's balls are gone

Nona hows Angus these days, he reminds me so much of Hanna it's sometimes scary,
i really miss that little fuzzy white shark

Bill, I think there must be a full moon or something because he has been AWFUL to the girls and to Zac these past couple of days! He chases Zac around the house, he picks on Kahlua and tries to drag her off somewhere as she squeals in horror, and he tries to sink his fangs into Mojo when they're playing or when she's sleeping quietly!

I've noticed that he's a real little beast only a couple of days of the month and then only in the mornings. I suppose I should be grateful he's not like that all the time but when he's in this funny mood, he doesn't care if I tell him off, he's just itching to cause a ruckus.

If I make him stand on the naughty mat (put him in the cat carrier), he just turns around and goes back to being a brute when I let him out!

There's a lot of screaming and yelping from the girls, Zac flies around the house with Angus chasing him like a dervish, and Seamus and I stand on the sidelines wondering what is going on! It really is a mad house when he's in this kind of mood

i used to give Hanna "passion flower" when he got in his shark mode,
when his was in his bathe every one in the house including the cat mode,

or when i had to give him a bath.

he did really well on it, as it calmed him down quite a bit and he was a lot more easy going, he would even snuggle up with us on occasion from time to time to take a nap!!!

but i don't know if you can get "passion flower extract" where you are though

A smell can calm a ferret? Interesting. If nothing else, if he smells like the stuff, the others can smell him coming and hide.

Gary

update please

Yes Gary, there are even things you plug into the electical socket for cats.
When cats are being restless towards each other these things actually seem to work.
I know plenty of cat slaves who use it and say it works so...
Why would it not work for ferrets... well it's a different 'smel' but we humans seem to
calm down from certain smells too.

Sooooo Nona, whassup with Angus these days?
We are having a full moon here today.. I will be on the balcony howling at it tonight LOL!