Rachel Helgason said:
>We have one ferret right now and would like to find a buddy for him.  That
>of course means getting a bigger cage, and we were looking at Martin's
>cages.  Specifically the three or four story ones.  I was wondering if
>any of you have one of these and whether they're okay for ferrets.
 
Skip Martin is very good about custom making cages.  We have two -- a 3
story one and a 2 story one for travel that was custom made to *just* fit
in our car.  Both, by my insistance, have floors that go across the whole
width and length of the cage (except for a small hole for the ramp to the
next floor) rather than the more usual open design that wastes volume and
makes me worry whether a ferret will hurt itself by falling.  I consider
the price of both cages to be excellent for what we got.
 
>I'm not sure if the floors are wire or not (I was looking online, and the
>pictures aren't very clear), and if they are, we could always put something
>down over them since wire floors aren't very good for the little cuties.
>We're also on a tight budget, so we unfortunately can't get one of those
>fancy big ones that we'd like.
 
The floors of our cages are galvanized wire.  Plastic covered wire is also
available.  I covered the floors by buying some cheap outdoor carpet at a
hardware store and cutting pieces of the carpet to size.
 
-- Bill Sebok
 with Buttercup, Bridgett, Bonnie and Charlie (ferrets) and Patrick(dog)
 in loving memory of Ben, Jerry, and Jasmine (ferrets) and Lupi (dog)
[Posted in FML issue 2963]