I have two ferrets and I love them to death. They do require a good amount of attention, but I would say less attention than a dog. I say that because mine will play with me for a few minutes but then are perfectly content to play together or just zoom around the room looking for trouble. Oh, and my snake rack has little pins holding the boxes in (so the bigger snakes couldn't push it open) and the very first day my little girl ferret saw the rack, she pulled out all the pins. Luckily I ran over there before she thought about getting the boxes out...which I'm sure was her plan..."Hmm...I wonder what's in here...its prolly a toy..." haha They are a handful but I couldn't imagine not having them!