Having said that, if you have questions, opinions, news, or comments about ferrets, please email them to me - I promise I ll read each one, and if they are of nature common to all ferret owners, they ll probably appear here. When friends and neighbors found I had one, the referrals started coming in about re-homing unwanted pets and help with ferret care. In 1988 I started a ferret rescue, The Ferrets of Pet Pals, and I have placed over 1,300 ferrets in ten years. There are two reasons ferrets loose their fur. If it is an overall shedding, clumps of fur will come out when you pet the ferret or pinch some hair.
Ferrets shed twice a year and do so in about two weeks time.
The other reason ferrets loose their fur is because of adrenal disease. This fur pattern is even from side to side, and usually starts at the rump and moves up the back. New fur does not grow back in. It is a slow process and can leave the ferret bald in less than a year. The resolve to this is removal of the affected adrenal gland, which has become enlarged and is producing too many hormones for the ferret's body to handle.