>I've discovered a great way to keep those super ferrets from clearing gates.
>Get a hard plastic tube (drain pipe, or even stiff dryer hose), cut it to
>the length of the gate and slit the tube all the way down the side.  Then
>place the tube over the top of the gate.  The ferret now has no grip on ...
 
I tried this with my Pepper ... he learned to grab the tube right where it
abuts the wall and still got over.  He kept leaping and leaping and leaping
until he'd gotten strong enough and figured it out!  At one point I had
*two* of these things on top (to the point where *I* couldn't get over the
gate) and he STILL got over it!  I just gave up and he roams the rest of the
house (with critical doors shut to keep him inside the house).  He's the
biggest, strongest MF silver mitt I've ever seen.
 
--Barb--
proud mom of one of the naughtiest ferrets around :)
 
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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 2171]