>As for the box springs, I finally gave up and ripped the fabric off the
>underside of the box springs.  Now they hold absolutely no appeal at all.
 
what IS it with the foam in the box spring???  I didn't know anyone else
had this problem.  Every weekend we'd have to move the bed and vacuum up
gallons of foam the ferrets had torn out.  They also liked to hide stuff on
the little ledges around the edge of the bottom of the box spring... After
many frustrating months, we took action.  First, we didn't have to tear
the foam out (it was already all gone...) we thought if we could cover the
bottom of the box spring with something slick, they wouldn't want to dig on
it.  So we got a huge roll of plastic heavy duty garbage bag material from
OSH (I think it's for yards or something)- but stronger than a garbage bag-
and staple gunned it across the bottom.  It worked for about 1 hour. :-)
After that we caught them crawling around between the plastic and the
bottom of the box spring like it was their little attic or something.
 
Then I hit upon an idea: chicken wire!  (yes, I know this sounds extreme).
I told my boyfriend (half jokingly) that he should staple some on the box
spring- there was no way they'd dig on that.  Well he took me up on my
suggestion!  Except the store didn't have the regular thin wire- he got
this super strength heavy duty chicken wire you can't even bend.  Stapled
it on the bottom of the bed and voila!  No more digging, no more foam.  I
don't know what the world has come to when you have to protect your indoor
property from your own pets with chicken wire.  But...desperate times call
for desperate measures I guess.:D
 
--Jaime
Freddy ("God Mom, maybe I *liked* all that wax in my ears- you didn't
have to go scraping it all out!"), Peanut ("I'm just pretending to be
innocent and look cute so you'll give me a raisin"), Scooter ("if I
just keep jumping I know I can get up there"), and Daisy ("I will head
butt you until you pay attention to me")
 
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Jaime
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[Posted in FML issue 3144]