Training Your Pet Ferret (Training Your Pet Series) [Paperback]

Gerry Bucsis (Author), Barbara Somerville (Author)

Book Description

Series: Training Your Pet Series | Publication Date: October 1, 1997

Furry, cuddly, and bursting with energy, lovable ferrets are becoming increasingly popular as family pets. However, keeping a ferret in the home is different from keeping a dog or cat. Books on ferrets are readily available, but Training Your Pet Ferret is the only volume that speaks directly to the issue of training. The authors explain that effective training can start anytime, whether the owner adopts an adult ferret or purchases a baby as kit. The first seventeen chapters give information on housing and equipment.

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Furry, cuddly, and bursting with energy, lovable ferrets can be a handful for inexperienced owners. This book describes how you can start effective training at any time, whether you adopt an adult ferret or purchase a baby kit. The authors provide instruction on training methods that really work, with tips on protecting your ferret from household hazards, as well as protecting carpets and houseplants from a ferret's natural tendency to claw and dig. New in this edition is a chapter on clicker training, an up-to-date and effective way for teaching your pet new behaviors. Also new is information on training pets that have special needs--hearing-impaired and sight-impaired animals.

Filled with color photos. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 88 pages
• Publisher: Barron's Educational Series (October 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764100939
• ISBN-13: 978-0764100932
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 6.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,266,402 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is the best ferret book I've ever seen!, August 27, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Training Your Pet Ferret (Training Your Pet Series) (Paperback)

This is absolutely THE BEST ferret book I have ever seen. It is a wonderful training guide and tells you exactly how to live with a pet ferret on a day-to-day basis. Not only do you get practical advice on litter training, handling, walking your ferret on a leash, food and housing, etc, there are great sections that give you step-by-step information on training techniques. I like the chapter on teaching your ferret to come when he's called by using a squeaky toy. The authors tell you exactly how to go about this, step by step. And it works! The chapter on traveling with your ferret is wonderful-- all the things you would never think about are covered. Best of all, the chapter on Ferret Proofing your house or apartment is a life saver for ferrets. You have to read it! As an added bonus, there are about 80 colored photos that range from those cute shots we ferret owners expect, to details that show you what to do in each chapter. If you're a first time ferret owner, YOU NEED THIS BOOK. If you're an experienced owner, it's still great to have-- you might find a number of things that you hadn't thought about before. As I said before, this is THE BEST ferret book I've ever seen for telling an owner how to live with their pet.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Okay, but not for every ferret, October 23, 2005

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Poppins - See all my reviews

This review is from: Training Your Pet Ferret (Training Your Pet Series) (Paperback)

My ferrets are either too smart or too stupid to be trained. The pictures were cute, but I couldn't find anything in it that I didn't already know from Ferrets for Dummies or Modern Ferret magazine. I read it once and gave it to the local humane society's library.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Best, June 29, 2000

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J. Pearson (Savage, MN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Training Your Pet Ferret (Training Your Pet Series) (Paperback)

Training Your Pet Ferret is the only book I have read that really does go in depth about how to train your ferret. It is filled with useful tips and advice on how to raise a better pet. Each page in the book has information that you can use. I have used many of the tips in this book and they all have seemed to work out perfectly for me. I am very satisifed with this book. As it says in the authors note, this is not a general care guide. This is a training guide. The only thing that I thought was bad about this book is the ferret pictures. The ferrets pictured in this book always look sad and unhappy. That is the only drawback, other than that, this is a perfect book for a new ferret owner or a ferret owner that has owned ferrets for many years.