Ferret Forum offers a lot of advice on ferrets and the problems they can get. The majority of people are polite, friendly and helpful. There are a few who can come across as "shouty" and judgemental but that is normally driven by over-concern for the animals and not enough consideration for the people rather than them trying to be rude. There has been some in-fighting in past but that is common when lots of people are passionate about a subject. Has helped me enormously and saved the lives of quite a few ferrets by arranging safe havens for them and offering advise.

I was new to ferret ownership and i have to say i thought the forum was brilliant for any problems i had and they were all willing to help.

There are some people on there with strong views and opinions but i have to say i've never been spoken to badly or treated with hostility.

I've even made friends from this site and i appreciate all the advice people have given me. As for people not getting along, treat people as you would like to be treated, personal conflicts are really no place for a forum.

Overall .. I love it :)

I think it is very unfair that "Certain" people have been coming on here and giving fefo 1 star. In my opinion it is worth at least 2 stars

I have been going on ferretsforum for the past 24 months, on and off. After reading pages of wrong doings by the mods, I left it alone for a few months. Now I just dont read anything typed by them. I just skip their sections.

I was a member for two weeks but decided to not bother anymore.

There is a bunch that keep pouncing on anything that I typed on a thread.

One of them even called me somthing that I felt was very rude.

I am very happy being just me and my ferret :) I will leave the twittering old ladies to themselves :)

I am a member on fefo and it is true whats been written. It has suffered very badly over the past 12 months.

I hope it will be back to normal soon.

forums have good things and bad going for them, including advice, members and mods, fefo no difernt

fefo gives owners a place to chat, is up to peple wot forums they use.

look to me like flamers and trolls from uver forums give reviws here

It can be very bad at editing posts. There also seems to be a very bad attitude towards personal opinion.

The new mod is really bad and for that reason I now go elsewhere to chat about ferrets.

Dont believe everything you read in reviews. some members of forums love to stir the pot, personal differences. At least on this forum you get info you need, not just backstabbing and sniping like you do on flaming.

im a member of both:

if you need ferret info, you will get it here.

say something rediculous and you will get a firm reply.

on the whole i think its an ok forum, just dont abuse people and you wont get any bother.

Member for years and have had plenty of advice and support over the years. I was hoping that nastiness was a transient problem but it seems not and I have waited and waited but things are getting progressively worse. For me a forum should be a place for information and transfer to knowledge but the nastiness stops me posting now. Moderation is bias by some and none existant by others so its "safer" not to post anymore. Unfortunately too much quality has been lost and I am not sure it can be restored though I hope it can. I am hoping that Admin will realise that changes have to made.
Positives: long established forum, good number of members, high activity
Negatives: Loss of many knowledgable members, bias moderation leading to skewed advice

It's a shame as I had heard positive things about this forum for ferret owners. I have lurked, but wouldn't join! There are too many know-it-all on there. In a nutshell, I am too scared to join.

What a shame that people feel the need to write on this website to try and point score against each other over a situation which should not concern most of them.

Ferrets forum is far from perfect but then that can be said of alot of places on the internet. On the whole it's a freindly and informative place which has unfortunately become involved in a personal arguement leading to the negative comments being left on this site by people who are not members of the forum they are commenting on. Perhaps when the review site finds itself with reems of he said she said posts on this thread of reviews they will see fit to remove all of it rather than sully a site because of a dispute which shouldn't concern it.

It seems a nice place, people are friendlier than other forums I have been to

What has happened to fefo?

It is shocking the way people are being treated.

the ferret hutch is so much better, so I go there now to chat and get info. It is so much better!

Mary is nice, I met here a few years ago. She is a very good mod, but the whole show has become a shambles. Reading it of late and it is very odd on there with bits going on in the background. I went on tonight ad the quickly left. You are always be certian to get some cute pics on there, and for that, I give 2*

I find it all a bit scary to be hoinest. I only posted a couple of times and was screamed at for mentioning something that another user did not like.

I some times look around, but never log on any more. Which is a shame.

The negative reviews that the hosts were forced to remove because of complaints by the moderators of Ferrets Forum and their friends were spot on. It was a good forum until about a year ago when new moderators took it over to further their own progression as 'experts'. They banned anyone who they regarded as having more expertise than themselves and their friends. This might have some credibility if one of their moderators hadn't started ranting about someone that they'd just banned, on the very forum itself. It's a shame that the minimum rating is 1 because thie forum deserves -10. There are plenty of other far better ferret forums out, if you want to meet decent people, just do a search.