Making Homemade Toys Your Ferret Will Love

[Sassy]

Although ferrets can usually find a way to turn anything into a toy, here’s a brief collection of inexpensive and safe homemade toys for your curious animals:

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[fstybrat]

Thanks for posting that Sassy!
I wouldn't have thought of a few of those.

I wanted to to add a couple:

* They love towels and blankets and tunnel through them!

* If you happen to have a bean bag chair , they like these too.
spray bottles in the summer, they have fun when you spray them (on the spray not the stream.)

* plastic grocery bags are another favorite (or paper bags even)

* fill a plastic tote or empty box with shredded paper (not newspaper mind you) {I shred my old bills with a paper shredder and use that, they love burying themselves in it)

I'll add more as I think of them

[DirtySouthChins]

Seeing we have only had our Fuzzies for a short time, we have only done a few that was listed above. But Thanks for the fun tips the fuzzies will thank you for it too,

Some other good toys for them are:

soda boxes
newspaper plastic wrap (with the ends cut off)
plastic tubs filled with rice or plastic easter eggs
a big plastic box filled snow(if you get snow)
blue jean legs that have been cut off(they make great tunnels)
dryer hoses
black drainage pipes.

[fstybrat]

Another suggestion is to make a "dig box" Ferrets seem to LOVE playing and hiding in them!!

**You can use a variety of fillers such as shredded paper (not news paper though, uncooked white rice, corn cob litter (not if you use it in your litter box though), non-styrofoam packing peanuts.
**For the box you can either use a large cardboard box with a hole cut in it or a large plastic tote.
**You can leave the top open or closed, but if you keep it closed then cut a hole in the side for them to get in and out.

Here is a picture of mine: I used a plastic storage tote, filled with shredded paper (old bills ), cut a hole in the side and used duct tape to cover the edges of the hole that was cut.
I found this to be the least messy and easiest to clean up when they are done playing.

[capnsweets]

That's really cool!