Confiscated ferrets will be shipped to the shelter in Oregon City. If your ferret is confiscated, you WILL NOT get the ferret back. If we allowed this to happen, we would lose our ability to take possession of confiscated ferrets. So, for your ferret's sake, don't try to smuggle a loved one into the hostile FFZ down south. If you are like me, you enjoy watching ferret behavior.
Ferrets have an acute sense of smell and therefore use odors as an important form of communication.
Studies have shown that scent gland secretions from ferrets have individually unique chemical profiles. Ferrets can identify the presence of a familiar versus a strange ferret according to these odors and can tell whether a ferret was present recently or a day ago. The study found that males were less aggressive towards strange ferrets when in the presence of the newcomer's odor than when in the presence of their own odor. This suggests that when introducing new males it may be beneficial to do it in an area imbued with the scent of the male suspected to be the subordinate individual. This is an obvious and common form of imparting its unique odor to a location important to your ferret, proclaiming the site as its own.