Ferrets belong to the weasel family that people have domesticated for over 2,000 years. They are brilliant and social pets, but they can be a lot of work and often need more care than a cat or a dog.
Ferrets come in different shapes, sizes, patterns, lengths, and colors.
The Different Colors and Patterns of Ferrets
1. Sable
Sable ferrets are the most commonly seen ferret. You’ll often see these in pet shops around the country. The top layer of hair may be a rich brown, and so the undercoat is lighter in color, varying from cream to white or even gold.
2. Black Sable
Black sable ferrets are different from normal sables in that they have darker guard hair and a cream or white undercoat.
There’s a more noticeable difference between the blackish-brown guard hair and the lighter undercoat.
3. Chocolate Colour
Chocolate ferrets have brown guard hairs and a white undercoat. Their eyes are dark, but their noses can vary in color from pink to brown.
4. Cinnamon Color Ferret
Cinnamon ferrets have a lighter brown to reddish color and aren’t very common. They have a white to golden undercoat, and the nose color ranges from beige to pink to reddish-brown.
5. Champagne Color
A light chocolate color, champagne ferrets have more delicate guard hair and white undercoats, and their eyes are usually more reddish of color.
6. Black Color
Darker than the black sable, a real black ferret has black fur and a white undercoat. It even has black eyes and a black nose, though sometimes the nose is marked with spots.
7. Albino Colour
An actual albino can be a white to cream ferret with crimson or red eyes and a red nose. White or cream ferrets that don’t have those red eyes and noses aren’t albinos.
8. Dark-Eyed White
Different from albino ferrets, white ferrets with black eyes have cream to white fur. However, they have burgundy eyes.
Now you know the actual ferret colors, it’s time to determine your ferret’s patterns. You say you’ve got a sable ferret but are you sure? Maybe it’s a sable solid or a dark standard or a sable mitt or a sable point or a sable point mitt or a sable roan or a sable roan mitt or a sable point roan mitt. You got confused, right?
The Different Ferret Patterns
Panda
The panda can be any coat color except white and should have an almost entirely white head.
You can observe a darker shade throughout the shoulders and the hips.
The eyes are burgundy. The nose is red or crimson with a light definition. Knee patches can be gifts, and mitts/stockings should be a gift on all 4 feet.
You might observe a white tip on the tail and discover small color rings or patches across the eyes and small shade markings in the front of the ears.
Pandas could have a white or speckled belly and guard hair and a combination of white scattered guard hairs.
Point
The point can be any coat shade except white. It could show huge differences in color between the body color and the other factors.
The mask could be a skinny ‘V’ for black, black sable, cinnamon, chocolate, and no longer a T bar mask. Champagnes will have thin “V’ masks or have no mask at all. The nose color may be lighter than the simple shades listed.
Roan
The roan may be any coat color except all white. There needs to be 40%- 60% white guard hair in the body for the ferret to be considered a roan.
The body needs to be sprinkling with colored guard hair.
Reliable
The stable may be any coat color besides all white. The percentage of colored defended hairs has to be preferably 100% about white protected hairs, which should be realistically zero% in the body and factors.
This pattern gives an appearance of stable color attention from the head to the tail.
Standard
The standard may be any coat coloration besides all white.
The percentage of colored shield hairs should be preferably 100% about white protected hairs, but the shade attention is not as heavy as in the stable sample.
The body will appear lighter in color attention, and the factors will be effortlessly discernible. Masks are both full or ‘T’ bars.
Striped/Patterned
The striped/patterned can be any coat color besides all white.
The sample should have no less than 90% white shield hairs with both a sprinkling of colored shield hairs for the body’s duration or colored spots and a colored stripe down the lower back.
Different Ferret Sizes
There are three different sizes of ferrets.
Whippet Ferrets
A whippet ferret is the smallest ferret type, and its body structure is similar to that of a greyhound type.
A whippet ferret has a slim figure, long body, and legs, and usually walks with an arched back. Their body structure is a lot thinner.
These ferrets are also now and then called gazelles.
Standard Ferrets
This is the most common type of ferret. They originally came from Europe and were known to be fierce rabbit hunters.
Bulldog Ferrets
Like their namesake canine breed, bulldog ferrets are thick inside the chest with big, rounder heads and stocky legs. Bulldog ferrets come from northern Europe and are not so common in the US.
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Other Ferret Facts
Ferrets live a mean lifespan of 5-7 years. However, the existing record for the oldest ferret is 14 years old!
They’re curious little creatures. If you have youngsters within your house, you should avoid adopting a ferret because they’re fragile animals and can easily be injured if handled inappropriately or dropped.
They like to nap and typically sleep up to twenty hours each day. Once they are awake, however, they are very active and playful pets!
They want to bounce around and invite you to play with them. If you start playing with them, this may often make them happy.
They like crawling through everything including cardboard boxes and even pant legs or long sleeves.
Ferrets tend to play rough at first, so it’s important to show them what is acceptable and what not.
