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Miscellaneous interesting fact about ferret
Some interesting facts about ferrets:

1. Ferret on a leash An unspayed female ferret is called a jill while a spayed female is a sprite. An intact male is a hob and a neutered male is called a gib. Baby ferrets are called kits.
2. Ferrets have been domesticated for thousands of years.Ferrets have no inherent fear of humans.
3.  A newborn ferret is so small that it can fit into a teaspoon! All ferret kits have white fur at birth. After kithood (6-8 weeks of age) ferrets make very few sounds. 
4. Ferrets like to crawl into small dark spaces to sleep. 
5. Ferrets can sleep so soundly that they cannot be woken up even when picked up and jostled.

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