Christmas is fast approaching. And if you’re like us, you’ve barely begun your shopping. When it comes to your pet ferrets, though, Christmas gift shopping gets a whole lot easier. Ferret toys for Christmas can be very inexpensive and easy to find. You may already have many of these ferret gifts lying around your house. If your ferrets can play with it, they will like it – and they can play with just about anything.
Here are a few ideas for ferret toys for your fuzzies
Christmas stocking.
A Christmas stocking makes a perfect sleep sack for your fuzzy. Your ferrets will immediately climb in and make it a holiday home. Of course, the stocking needs to be big enough for your ferret to get inside easily. Also, make sure it is securely made with no jingle bells, bows, pompons, or other items that could be choking hazards.
Squeaky toys.
Remember that your ferret, as cute and cuddly as she is, is a predator by nature. So your carpet shark would probably love to find a toy or two that can she can attack. Just be sure that these ferret toys are made of really solid materials – those teeth were meant to gnaw, and a flimsy plastic toy won’t last through Christmas morning. (By the way, you may want to keep out of the way when your fuzzy is playing with his new toy – in its frenzy, he could mistake your toes as part of the toy.)
A pan for splashing or rummaging in.
You already know that your fuzzies like to dig in their litter pans, so a low pan, like a dish pan or a kitty litter pan, would be ideal. Maybe you can use the pan to wrap other toys in. When your ferrets tear through the wrapping to open their gift, they’ll find a lot of fun inside. They may have so much fun that the rest of your household can go and open their gifts in relative peace.
Cat-scratching posts.
Those carpeted platforms-with-columns are not just for kitty. Put one in a large, sturdy crate and snake some ferret-tunnel tubing around it. It will take only a few minutes to create a wonderland for your ferret. Best of all, when your ferret goes back in its cage, you can disassemble the playground and set it up a different way tomorrow.
Cardboard boxes.
Remember when your kids were small? You’d find the perfect (albeit very expensive) electronic learning toy for them, but they ended up having more fun with the box it came in. Ferrets are the same. Give them a box (perhaps the ones from your human family’s gifts), and they’ll be quite content.
Plastic bags.
Just as cardboard boxes make perfect toys for kids and ferrets, paper or plastic bags also work well – as long as you remove or cut off the handle portion, which could be a choking hazard. Ferrets love making noise with the crinkly material and exploring the interior.
Medicine bottles.
Those child-safe containers left over from prescription or over-the-counter medications are perfect. Clean them out thoroughly (and that means VERY thoroughly), dry them out, and then fill them with whatever small noisemakers you have on hand – rice, popcorn, jingle bells, etc. The child-proof caps will hold the items securely inside while your ferrets play.
