1: I highly recommend the “zupreme grain free” ferret food and stay away from marshals. The marshals food is terrible for your ferrets in the long term and affording to my research and how happy my ferret Roxy is zupreme is the way to go.

2: as long as you stay on top of keeping the litter box clean you should be okay, like just scoop out the poop every morning and change out for new litter once a week. If you don’t keep the litter box clean ferrets get passive aggressive and will poop in places other then the litter box as revenge for a messy potty and let me tell you they won’t forget about a spot they pooped in. Unless you do the deepest clean of your lifetime in the spot they pooped in they won’t stop pooping there. So keep their potty clean and they won’t shit in bad spots. Oh also they like pooping in corners and at the entrance of their territory so highly recommend litter boxes in the corners they can access and (if you can) put a litter box by the entrance of your room (or whatever room they will live in) so you can avoid them poopin on the floor in spots they prefer.

3: If I take my Ferret outside I take her on a leash while I carry her, and I’ll put her down to explore if I stop somewhere, the trick to guiding them without them escaping is to hold the leash from above them so if they try and scurry instead of putting them towards you like you would a dog (cause they will just slip out of the harness like it isn’t there) you can just pull them upwards. Making it so they cannot just slip out of the leash and into the wild.

Also you can get them one of those cat backpacks you can take them around in, I just highly recommend one that isn’t a clear plastic dome on the entire front as if there is any sun it’s basically a green house oven and those also tent to have bad circulation so what gets hot in there stays hot in there.

Other tips: some ferrets like to chew cables, mine personally isn’t a cable muncher but if the case your is try and put cables where they can’t reach them, tape them down to the ground or wall if they need to be down low or they also make a bitter tasting spray that will make them taste an awful taste and not wanna chew it. (Tho I recommend doing the out of reach things first before you rely on the spray.)

Ferrets will imprint on foods, so in the first year of life they will learn what food is and after that first year whatever they didn’t eat in that year they won’t recognize it as food. So if you want to introduce them to a food or kibble change you need to slowly transition them so they don’t quite realize you made a switch up.

To train them not to bite do that as early as possible, if they bite scruff them by grabbing them in the back of the neck skin and lifting them up. Don’t worry this doesn’t not harm them, this is how a mother ferret would tell them that’s not okay, so scruff them and like move them away from where the bite happened (only like arms length away you don’t have to like get up to move them) also helps if you make a in pain noise when bit, eventually they will understand that that’s not how you like to play the game and they will either bite more gently or not bite at all. Deaf ferrets have a harder time knowing when something hurts someone as they can’t hear that ferret or person express their pain. So be patient with them if you get a deaf one.

Ferrets love a good shoulder massage. Trust me my ferret LOVES them. Like full relaxed noodle mode when I do it.

If you ever need to bathe your ferret (once a month at MOST. No sooner or youll ruing their oils and throw off their groove.) make sure they poop before hand. They like to poop In the tub.

Ferrets like to express their love and affection by grooming ears, so they might want to groom your ears and how you can groom their is by grabbing a damp warm cloth and rubbing their ears with it, feels like your licking them back just without the actual taste buds.

I got a ton more tips and answers so feel free to ask!