This recipe from Bob Church for a ferret "slider":

I used a large silicon furniture mover disk, commonly called a slider.

What you need: 4-inch slider disk (the rectangular ones work best, but
any shape can be modified), Heavy duty stapler,
4 3-inch Velcro strips (2 of each type),
tin snips, fingernail file, boiling water.

Trim the slider disk with tin snips so it is as wide as the ferret's
back end when the legs are folded in the proper sitting position.
Cutting is made easier if you boil the disk for a few minutes. When
cool, sand off all rough edges with the fingernail file. Boil the
slider disk again and when still hot, slightly bend up one edge of the
disk to help it not catch on stuff on the floor. I have found about a
1/2-inch bend so the edge of the disk is about 1/4-inch higher than
floor level is about right. It will be the top edge of the ferret
slider, the one facing the ferret's head end. You can also bend the
back edge up a bit, but it is not as critical. Use the stapler to
attach a couple of Velcro strips, so they are at the corners (two at
the top of the ferret slider and two at the bottom), and at an angle of
about 45 degrees (again, hot plastic staples easier than cold plastic).
I put the soft strip so it faces the body of the ferret and the barbed
strip so it faces away from the body, and the strips are in opposite
corners. Make sure your top bend is facing the body of the ferret.
Bend your ferret's legs into an anatomical position and strap them in,
crisscrossing the Velcro strips to form an X on the back of the ferret
(make it snug but not tight). The slider takes their back end off the
floor, takes very little space so they can go just about anywhere their
ferret friends can go, and it reduces floor friction so that they areas
mobile -- or more -- than any ferret with wheels. Also, any poo-poo
mistakes can be easily cleaned off the plastic. In fact, the ease of
construction and extreme low cost makes it easy to construct several
"Ferret Sliders", and when one is soiled, just strap on the cleanr
eplacement. I used these "Ferret Sliders" with Bruiser and I thought
they worked far better than a wheeled contraption. They are low tech,
but very, very effective. Bruiser was able to follow other ferrets into
tubes, and crawl into sleep sacks -- something he could never do with
wheels. Also,if the slider gets stuck on something, the ferret can pull
themselves out of the slider and not end up stuck for hours at the wall
and the leg of a table. The sliders allow ferrets to be more like
ferrets, require no moving parts, and can be made by just about anyone.
Give it a fair chance and I think you will like them better than a
wheeled cart.

Bob C
[Originally posted in FML 6039]

[Posted in FML 7833]