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Dear Heloise: I am a ferret owner in Minneapolis. My mom cut out your ferret article for me, and I received it on Easter. I wanted to write to tell you that ferret ancestors might have been nocturnal (this is just a guess), but domesticated ferrets, including my Valencia, are neither diurnal nor nocturnal. Pet ferrets sleep on and off during the day and night, and tend to get used to their owners’ schedules. Valencia usually goes to bed around 9:30 at night and wakes up again around 5:30 in the morning. She sometimes gets up to drink and eat during the night, but then goes back to sleep again. She’s not ready to play again until morning. – Jess, via e-mail