How to Teach Your Ferret to Break an Egg

So you and a friend caught a ferret and would like to teach it how to break an egg to get it ready to cook. How to start?

Realize that ferrets eat eggs in their natural habitat. Before you start the training, you and your ferret need to suppres your natural instincts to eat the egg before it is clutched.

Make sure you and your ferret are sedated. A hungry ferret breaking an egg is like a squirell in autumn eating a nut instead of storing it away for winter.

The key step is to make your newfound best friend as verocious as Conan the Barbarian. When breaking the egg, the yolk HAS to break also. The answer to this problem is to make your ferret associate the yolk with his (or her) worst nemesis, the snake.

Place a seaf over a ceramic bowl.

Place your egg in the seaf.

Place your ferret near the egg.

Wait until the egg has drained into the bowl.

Tips

• An important factor for this technique to work is the fineness of the seaf. If the seaf is too fine, the yolk will not properly drain into the ceramic bowl. If the seaf is too course, fragments of shell may filter into the bowl. Achieving proper fineness is a matter of experience.

Warnings

• Do not eat raw eggs, nor let your ferret eat raw egg. It may have bacteria that you generally kill when the egg is properly cooked.