they are mayhem! They sleep a lot, but once they are awake you know about it. They chase each other round and round and roll around, gambol, and dance like pepe le pew. they are pretty much like this all the time they are awake, like this:
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVEe1DMsOq0
they are great fun, easy to keep, I keep them in a hutch when i'm not there, clean out their poo corner once a day (just use newspaper and roll it up and put some new newspaper down), clean water and a bowl of food everyday (they need to eat very regularly as they have a short digestive tract). They are nippy as youngsters but can be trained not to nip. It takes me about 3 mins to clean them out during which time they have pretty much wrecked my living room by mooching through everything!! They also make a noise that sounds like they are giggling. if they haven't got other ferrets to live with... you are their playmate and you don't have any say in the matter... prepare to have nipped toes and be stalked and jumped out on!
they run around my flat when i'm there, they are toilet trained and go on a puppy training mat.
They don't scratch or chew but they do dig, so beware if you have carpets and not laminate or wood floor. If you have a reclining settee you need to be careful for two reasons.
1. they can get into the settee/chair and could get trapped if you spring it open (i open mine before i get them out)
2. Once they find that foam in the settee.... bye bye settee! they love to dig it out.
I've heard that sometimes they can dig into a settee through the bottom so the best way to avoid this is to stable a cotton sheet to the bottom as they can't get their claws through. My non-reclining two seater has not suffered this fate though. Anyway, i just keep an eye on them so they don't do damage to my recliner and that's also why they get put in the hutch when i'm at work! LOL
They are basically lots of fun. O yea, and they love holes! and once they've discovered it, no matter how much you block it off, they will hunt for it and never forget it was there. they are very clever. i had a new tumble dryer, they ran up the hose in the back (i thought i had secured it!) and next thing Zero was running around with a rubber ring around him! had to phone up and get the repair man out, and i hadn't even used it! (of course "I found it like that when i unwrapped it! LOL)