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When people find out I have ferrets, they ask me all kinds of questions
including this one: "Where do you keep your ferrets? In a cage?" Their eyes
practically come rolling out of their heads and their chins hit the floor
when I tell them that they have their own room. The room doubles as a
ferret/computer room.
Inside the room is:
- computer desk (no drawers to get into)
- two LOCKING cabinets to hold college and computer stuff (replaced the old
bookshelves)
- two cages (1 small and 1 condo)
- sleeping bags, hammocks, baskets with blankets
- thousands of toys
- 20 ft plastic dryer tube
- cardboard boxes
- paper bag
- 5 litter boxes (3 in the cages and 2 larger ones outside the cage)
- a beanbag chair (used to be Sobriety's favorite chair to sleep on, bless
his soul)
- a self watering bowl and huge HEAVY food bowl
We also have a carpet in the room (which was subjected to occasional
accidents when Sobriety lost control of his bodily functions toward the end
of his life). They love the carpet but I think the next house will have a
linolium floor instead. Much easier to clean.
The room is totally ferret proofed. They don't even bother with the few
wires I have because Bitter Apple solved that problem real well. They are
not caged unless I know the house is being shown by the real estate lady or
if I am in the process of cleaning the room. They can come and go from the
cage as they like. I keep them company often since my computer is in the
same room and I usually have a lot of school work or I am on the IRC. They
are let out about once per day to run the hallway and the diningroom
(supervised, of course). They are not allowed in the living room because I
can never get them out of the couch (we are looking at buying a futon very
soon).
What can I say? My babies are spoiled rotten :)
RE: STUFFING FERRETS:
When Sobriety passed on, the thought NEVER even occured to me to have him
stuffed! I returned him to the earth from which he came. Yes, he was my
favorite boy. I will remember him by making a memory book of all of his
pictures and may even have a small portrait painted of him by a local
artist. But stuff him???? Never!
Julie and The Fuzz Factory --Misty and Charity
In Loving Memory of Sobriety.
[Posted in FML issue 1460]
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