>My Peanut loves to get behind the stove and especially get into the bottom
>drawer with all the pans and such.  I think he miust like the clanking and
>clattering that they make as he roams around under there.  Not to worry, we
>have an electric stove (no pilot light to burn himself on).
 
Just a word of caution ... I have an electric stove, too, and discovered
that my one ferret (Cal) was digging away at the fiberglass insulation
around the oven!  I opened the drawer to find it full of fiberglass debris.:(
I had to wash all the ferrets, vacuum the kitchen, drawer and the rugs in
the house (because they'd been running back and forth) AND change the
bedding.  Then I wiped out the drawer and washed all the pots and pans
(because fiberglass is *really nasty*).  I had to change my clothes and take
a shower, and even so my arms and legs were bright red from the fiberglass!
I cleaned out the ferrets ears carefully, too, as I noticed that one was
scratching his ears frantically.  :(
 
So even if it doesn't have a pilot light, be careful.  None of the other
ferrets I've ever owned (in 10 years) has done this.  What a mess!
 
--Barb--
 
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Barbara Carlson                   Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA
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Thought for the day:
    If "boring women have immaculate homes," I must be very interesting!
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[Posted in FML issue 1824]