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ok- please- no body attack me for this.
My husband wants ferrets- badly- he had them growing up and blah blah blah- we've found 2 through a rescue that we will be getting most likely on tuesday.

We foster dogs and have dogs of our own. Our personal dogs are 2 german shepherds and 1 wolf/husky mix. DON'T FREAK OUT YET- (i know- wolves are prey dogs and might kill the ferrets- blah blah blah- she is an outside dog- i couldnt get her in the house for a steak)
We also foster german shepherds.
My question is- how do we introduce ferrets and dogs? My 2 shepherds are great- don't care about much of anything- we have had a few dog to dog problems but new cats or rabbits or anything like that, we havent had a problem.
as for the fosters- its an per-dog situation. the ones i have now are very interested in my cat- she is only 1 and was able to get a shepherd to back away from her with out swinging a paw- she's the 'dog boss'- no questions asked.

I need some advise as to introducing the new dogs to the ferrets and visa-versa.

thanks in advance.
Beth

I have four dogs and 2 ferrets.I use gates.Two of my dogs are scared to death of the ferrets and the other two dont care.But one of my ferrets hates dogs and will come up behind them and bite thier back legs HARD.So I keep them seperated.Ferrets get the morning to romp while the dogs are in the back room.I have two permanent gates so I can shut animals in different rooms, It works really well.

I have one fairly dumb dog that insists on sticking his nose in the ferrets cage dispite getting nipped hard on the nose many times.