I knew it was going to happen some day.  My big Silver Mitt, Pepper (who is
about 9 or 10 months old) has solved the Puzzle of the Gate.  Darn.  He just
runs up, leaps, hooks front paws over top of gate and scoots right over!
(to land running for the stairs to the second floor).  Eeeeeek!  I stood
there last night and shooed him away and he *hissed* at me!  :) Heh.  I
guess he thought I was a party-pooper.
 
Does anyone have any suggestions of how I could modify the gate so he
couldn't hang on?  I'm too short to be able to step over anything higher.
What I have is a baby gate (the kind that locks open at various widths and
wedges itself in the doorway) which is covered with duct tape (so they
couldn't climb up the mesh).  It's worked just fine for the last 10 years
worth of ferrets, but I have never owned a fiesty young male before, and
he's an adventurous one.  At this rate I won't own anything breakable in
another couple months.  *sigh* I can't let him into the rest of the house
because it's not safe, and he'd trash the place.  (garbage cans and kleenex
boxes galore)
 
--Barb--
 
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Barbara Carlson                   Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA
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 http://www.gsia.cmu.edu/andrew/bcarlson/home.html (under construction)
Thought for the day:
    If "boring women have immaculate homes," I must be very interesting!
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[Posted in FML issue 1464]