Hi,
Just wanted to combine your two messages, since mine are related to both.
While baking for the Thanksgiving holidays, I had my ferrets (4) out playing
around, and I turned on the oven to pre-heat, and slowly this awd-godful
smell arose, I panicked, thinking that a ferret had climbed from the back of
the oven, into it.  I quickly opened the oven....... OH YULK, A DEAD MOUSE
BAKING.....
 
Being relieved that it wasn't a ferret, but dismayed that a mouse was lying
on the bottom of the oven floor, next to the electric coil, does anyone know
what a mouse smells like being burned?  You don't want to know.  My thoughts
are, my ferrets insist on getting behind there, and possibably, injured the
mouse to where it crawled up into the oven and died, and got baked.
 
Yes I agree, one needs to know that there is no way that their ferrets can
crawl into the oven, or from behind it, something I had never given any
thought to, until then.
 
We have chickens, and since its winter here, I have to fill a large bucket
from the kitchen sink to fill their water trough, I sat the bucket on the
floor, and Buford, climbed up and stuck his head into it and went to fall
in, fortunately, I caught him in time, and all he got was a good dunking
from the head to his chest, he didn't know what to make of that!!!!!  Thats
another thing to keep in mind, buckets of filled anything sitting around,
and possible drowning.
 
Marti
[Posted in FML issue 1772]