Traveling with a Pet Ferret

Hi there! I'm Fran Friedman from Morning Star Animal Sanctuary and I am here to talk to you about traveling with your ferrets on behalf of expertvillage.com. The first thing is ferrets do love to travel. When you have your ferrets, sometimes leaving them home is stressful and they do get very stressed when they are separated from their owners. The best solution, if possible, is to take them with you. Make sure the first thing is the weather. Ferrets can have heat stroke within 5 minutes. Definitely if the weather is too warm it is sometimes best to bring in a pet sitter and not travel with your pet. If you can go in an air conditioned car to where you are going or if you are going some where where it is very short distance and there will be air conditioning, then they certainly can go out in the summer months. Definitely traveling in the winter is better because they do take cool a lot better than they do the heat. If you have to travel with your ferret, make sure that you bring plenty of water. I always buy a case of water just in case you are out and the car gets stuck some where, you have enough water that you can even water down your animal to keep them from getting heat stroke. There are several signs such as if your ferret starts yawning or looking very lethargic definitely make sure he has a good drink along the way and ferrets do eat every 4 hours so you certainly will have to bring their favorite food.