Ferrets are pretty intelligent and can be taught some tricks, as I've mentioned before. I dug up a short series of videos on YouTube that cover the initial steps of training a reasonably simple trick and compiled them with some comments in Training a Ferret to Shake a Paw. Though the videos do not show all the steps to teach this trick, I like the videos because they nicely illustrates the concept of shaping behavior by breaking the trick down into small steps and starting out by rewarding the ferret's very general initial attempts at the small steps.
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