Ferrets/Glossary

Glossary

This page contains an alphabethical list of terms commonly used in relation to ferrets as well as those used by the chatters watching the stream.

Term	Definition	Link
Dooking	The sound a ferret makes
Ear crimes	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
Gen Pop	The biggest playgroup of ferrets in the rescue consisting of 20+ ferrets. During nightcam the cage of gen pop will be in view.
Oldies	Playgroup consisting of the older ferrets. These are 5+ years old.
Playtime	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.	Link
Playcam, playtime camera	The camera showing an overhead view of the playroom. During playtime the stream will be swapped to this camera
PMS	Playgroup made up of the ferrets: Pepper, Moose and Ferrets/Salt
PS3	Playgroup made up of the ferrets: Pepper 2, Salt 2, Skye and Snowball
Soup / Soop	A liquid food for the ferrets. This is a raw meat soup.
Tube / Toob / Toobing	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.	Link
VONS	Playgroup made up of the ferrets Vinny, Onion, Nacho and Salsa
Wardancing	Jumping around excitedly either to show willingness to play or to intimidate their opponent.	Link