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| Dooking
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The sound a ferret makes
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| Ear crimes
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The act of biting or sucking on another ferret's ears. This happens most often when they are asleep in the cage. Most well know ear criminal is Beans
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| Gen Pop
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The biggest playgroup of ferrets in the rescue consisting of 20+ ferrets. During nightcam the cage of gen pop will be in view.
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| Jail
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When a ferret misbehaves either by climbing, ear crimes, or fighting too rough, they might be put seperate for a while until they calm down. Sometimes they are put in jail for an extended amount of time due to structured unwanted behaviour.
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| Oldies
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Playgroup consisting of the older ferrets. These are 5+ years old.
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| Playtime
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Time when the ferrets are let out of their cage so they can play and interact with eachother in the playroom. They have the entire room for themselves.
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| Playcam, playtime camera
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The camera showing an overhead view of the playroom. During playtime the stream will be swapped to this camera
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| PMS
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Playgroup made up of the ferrets: Pepper, Moose and Ferrets/Salt
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| PS3
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Playgroup made up of the ferrets: Pepper 2, Salt 2, Skye and Snowball
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| Sock tax
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This is when one of the ferrets attacks one of the caretaker's feet/socks
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| Soup / Soop
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A liquid food for the ferrets. This is a raw meat soup.
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| The king
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The king also known as Henry, he has been adopted as chat's king ferret and is known to disagree alot.
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Henry
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| Tube / Toob / Toobing
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Ferrets love to run through tubes. It is guessed this is because they instinctively love to burrow. Them running through the tubes has been dubbed toobing by the community.
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| VONS
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Playgroup made up of the ferrets Vinny, Onion, Nacho and Salsa
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| Wardancing
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Jumping around excitedly either to show willingness to play or to intimidate their opponent.
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