36 FERRET FACTS AND FANCIES. 



hutches, nests, and feeding vessels is largely a 

 preventive. If any one thinks that all they have 

 to do to raise ferrets is to throw in some feed, 

 they are mistaken. 



A box 4x5 feet will accommodate a pair or a 

 mother and litter. Place some clay or straw in 

 the bottom, clean out often and there will be no 

 disagreeable odor around the pen. Remember 

 that ferrets should not be kept in cellars or any 

 place that is damp. Their pens, hutches or boxes 

 should be in as clean and dry a place as possible, 

 where they get plenty of fresh air. Never cover 

 up the tops of their pens. These are things I 

 had to learn for myself in the last fifteen years' 

 experience in caring for ferrets. 



In keeping one or two ferrets, says a success- 

 ful raiser of years of experience, but who at one 

 tiine only raised a few, a pen four feet square is 

 about the right size and it should be about two 

 feet high. Cover over the top with one-inch mesh 

 wire, leaving a small door so that one can get at 

 them handy. Put about three inches of good 

 soil (not sand, as sand breeds fleas, and fleas are 

 the worst things that a ferret or a dog has to 

 contend with) in the bottom of the pen. Make 

 a small box nest in one corner, cover on top, with 

 holes for air, also a small square hole for the 

 ferret to go in and out. The cover of this nest 



