Ferrets
Ultimate List of All Ferret Breeds
Aug
Ferrets make fantastic pets with their playful personalities and curious nature. They’re intelligent, social and full of energy, making them a joy to watch and interact with.
While you might hear people talking about different “breeds” of ferrets, the truth is that there’s technically only one breed: the domesticated ferret. However, within this breed, there’s an amazing variety of colours and patterns that make each ferret unique.
Here at Coops and Cages, we not only stock the best ferret cages but we also are knowledgeable about 20 different ferret colours and patterns. Whether you’re a ferret owner or just curious about these lively animals, this guide will take you through the most popular looks you might encounter.
So, let’s explore the colourful world of ferrets together!
Albino
Albino ferrets have white fur, pink noses, and red eyes, giving them a distinct and striking appearance. Due to their light-coloured fur, they may require more frequent bathing to keep them looking clean. Albino ferrets are known for their playful and curious nature, making them engaging and affectionate companions.
Black Sable
Black sable ferrets have a deep black colour that extends from their nose to the tip of their tail. They feature a distinctive hood-like marking on their head that reaches down to the nose. Their undercoat is white or cream, while their guard hairs are dark ash-brown, with no warm tones. Their eyes are nearly black or dark brown, and their nose matches the dark ash-brown hue.
Black Sable Mitt
Black sable mitt ferrets have almost the same colours as the black sable, but with four white feet from the toe tip to around two-thirds of their legs. Their guard hairs should be genuinely black with zero to little white guard hairs. Aside from their mitts, they also have a white bib. Their eye colour is black or nearly black, just as it is with their nose.
Blaze
Blaze ferrets have a coat with varied colours. They have a distinct unbroken white stripe from the face to the area between their eyes, over their head and the area down the back of your neck. They also have a white bib and four mitts. These ferrets have minor colour rings surrounding their eyes. Some blaze ferrets have small masks.
Champagne
Champagne ferrets have warm milk chocolate brown guard hairs. Their undercoat is white, as preferred by judging standards, although ferrets with a slight golden hue are also accepted. Their eyes are pink, beige, or pink with a light brown or beige ‘T’ outline.
Chocolate
Chocolate-coloured ferrets have basically the same colour as the sable ferrets, except for the banded mask, legs, and tail being dark brown with shades of red. There are dark brown guard hairs covering the neck, body and head. Their undercoat is covered with cream to wheaten-coloured hairs. These ferrets have black eyes, although some look like they are ruby red. Their nose is brown to pink and has a ‘T’ outline.
Chocolate Mitt
Chocolate mitt ferrets share the same colour as the chocolate-coloured ferrets, but with light mitts, sometimes extending up their legs. In ferret colouration, “mitts” refer to white fur on a ferret’s feet, resembling little gloves or socks.
Cinnamon
Cinnamon ferrets have reddish brown guard hairs, tail and legs that are still reddish brown but darker, and a pink nose. Their mask colour is of cinnamon shades, complementing the main colour of the ferret. Their eyes are usually light to dark burgundy, although there are some cinnamon-coloured ferrets with black eyes.
Cinnamon Mitts
Cinnamon mitt ferrets look just like the cinnamon-coloured type but with white mitts.
Dalmatian
Dalmatian ferrets are mostly white with a pattern of black blotches or spots on their back. They also sport a pink nose and dark ruby or black eyes. Dalmatian ferrets are rare, interesting-looking and highly desired by ferret enthusiasts.
Heavy Silver or Pewter
Heavy silver ferrets have a deep, gunmetal grey coat with black hairs. They have a black, mottled or pink nose. Their mitts are white and their mask seems like a blotch under the eyes.
Panda
Panda ferrets have a white head, with the white hairs covering the nose to the shoulder area. They have a white bib that covers the entire underside portion of the ferret’s body. Their coloured part of the body has a saddle shape. Pandas are also noted for their pink nose, mitts, white-tipped tail, and eyes that are of any colour.
Light Pattern
Light-patterned ferrets mainly have white coat with several darker hairs scattered all over the body. They have a ruby or dark eyes and pink or black nose.
Medium Pattern
Medium-patterned ferrets look almost like the light-patterned types, but with more areas of their body covered with dark hairs.
Sable
Sable ferrets have a full mask and black legs. They are also noted for their cream to dark undercoat covered in dark guard hairs. The colour all over their body is of the same shade, especially in the areas including the head, body, and neck. These ferrets have black eyes and a black, mottled or pink nose.
Sable Mitt
Like other mitt types of ferrets, the sable mitts look just like sable ferrets except for their white feet.
Siamese
Siamese ferrets are standard sable, cinnamon or chocolate ferrets with darker shades on their legs and feet. They have a V-shaped mask that is as dark as the colour of their extremities and tail. Their underside is marked with a dark line that has the same colour as the hairs on their legs, feet and tail.
Siamese Mitt
Siamese mitt ferrets have the same colours as the Siamese ferrets, but with mitts.
Striped White
Striped white ferrets mostly have a white coat with a dark line running down their back, particularly tracing their backbone. Some ferrets also have a stripe that reaches their tail. Their nose is either black or pink. Their eyes are dark ruby or pink.
White with Dark Eyes
Dark-eyed or black-eyed white ferrets have a white coat, but some of these ferrets have a few dark hairs covering their backbone area. They have a black or pink nose and black eyes.
My kawaii Spencer ( Striped White ) is my little baby.
I WANT THEM ALL!!!!
You sure are one ferret lover! 😀 <3 <3 <3
I have a cinmin
Omg I love them all it’s so hard to choose just lol
Cutie pies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I couldn’t agree more! 😀 😀 😀
MY FERRETS ARE CUTE
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i want one
I really want one toooooooo!
If I could get any it would be the Champagne or the silver!!!
I’m getting one for my two daughters and son leaning toward the panda one but like the cinnamon and champagne one anyone have any tips they can give on the caretaking of one thanks and God bless all
I have a panda She’s the best!
I have a cinnamon
The Black-footed ferret (mustela nigripes) is an endangered species.
Hi I have a white ferret with a semi blackish tail and some black around his face wot is heee
I WANT THE DALMATIAN
35 years ago I purchased 2 ferrits with no idea how to care for them, and they smelled bad, now 35 years later, I know alit more and so desperately want to have this animal as a working service animal, as I discovered threw a friend’s ferrit, my shaking almost stops, my heart doesn’t race, and I don’t freak out t thinking everyone is staring right at me, my friends ferrit (snowball) is the greatest little guy, so smart, he thinks he is human, recently had to put my dog to rest after 15 years with me, adopted from a pound at 1 yrs old.
I truly want to have the ferrit.
I figured out i have 1 siamese and one panda ferret
cool my friend likes The panda ferret!
cool my sis
likes The panda ferret!
I have 2 I have a sable which is a bandit and a white striped, the bandit is a lot smaller than the white one and he is a little fire cracker he loves to play and bite and his little bites hurt but he’s just playing the white one is older and more calm but curious. I love my babies
i have always wanted a ferret but i never kne what type of ferret i wanted but this specific site helped and now i have one black sable ferret and a stripped white ferret so
THANK YOOOOOOOOOU
hahahaha my friend likes the Panda breed of Ferret
My favorite is the champagne ferret and the Panda ferret AND the white with dark eyes.
I have most of them but want all of them!!!!!
I have most of them but want all of them!!!!!
I also forgot the Siamese breed it is also one of my favs
I LOVE ALL OF THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have a Albino one and a sable one
They are te cutest tings ever and I would take any of them Im not fussy.
i wish i could have one🥺😮💨
Omg these are adorable! 😊 How do I choose? I literally want all of them! Thanks Jordan!