Need advice re: small animals/hamsters

[Tenor CS]

Thanks guys, but we're not at all interested in ferrets. Too expensive, too big, need too big of a cage, and yes, they smell. One of my best friends in school had a ferret and it always smelled like ass.

[Kreth]

Originally Posted by Tenor CS

Thanks guys, but we're not at all interested in ferrets. Too expensive, too big, need too big of a cage, and yes, they smell. One of my best friends in school had a ferret and it always smelled like ass.

Ferrets have a musk gland. The one your friend had was most likely not descented.

Originally Posted by Kreth

Ferrets have a musk gland. The one your friend had was most likely not descented.

yep chop the balls off and bye bye musk gland lol only females are musk gland free to start off with tho lol

[chippewastud79]

Mice or hamsters, don't over analyze what you need too much. Both my experience with either one required nothing more than a glass aquarium with a snap on screen lid, cedar shavings, a wheel, wood chews and paper towel or toilet paper tubes for them to run thru/chew. I haven't had a rodent pet in years though, just my

Originally Posted by Tenor CS

Thanks guys, but we're not at all interested in ferrets. Too expensive, too big, need too big of a cage, and yes, they smell. One of my best friends in school had a ferret and it always smelled like ass.

I had a tenant that had a ferret in my rental, which they weren't allowed to have, and it stunk like the dickens. Had to rip out the carpet in her room because of it when they left.

Originally Posted by chippewastud79

I had a tenant that had a ferret in my rental, which they weren't allowed to have, and it stunk like the dickens. Had to rip out the carpet in her room because of it when they left.

thats will have been down down to the people not looking after it propley not the ferret its self tho