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I recently returned from traveling on my boat in Central America
accompanied by my two ferrets. Here are three 'cool' ideas that seemed
to work well.
It is helpful to have a thermometer in the ferret area since humans aren't
always the best judge of temperature, especially when we are perspiring
and in a breeze.
The best method, since you don't have to cage the ferrets, is to use the
re-freezable plastic 'bottles'. Simply freeze them, put one or two in an
old sock, and place it where the ferret likes to sleep or curl up. You
could also freeze a plain plastic bottle with water, but the commercial
ones stay cold longer.
Secondly, confine the ferreets to their cage. Put a damp towel on top
of the cage and aim a fan at the towel, not the ferrets. The evaporation
has a cooling effect.
Thirdly, if things are really desperate, set a cage on top of a pan of
ice. Make sure there is a hammock available up above so the ferrets can
escape if they get too cold.
Putting water on the ferret only helps for a short time as they seem to
dry off rather quickly. And none of mine were at all fond of the process.
I am sure others have some ideas. These worked well for me.
Shirley and the boating ferrets, Dunkin' and Journey
[Posted in FML issue 3833]
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