Hi,
I would like to add to Debbie Saunder's warning about Super Pet cages.
It is not only the top that can be dangerous. Last summer I lost my
Pebbles. I had put her and her cage mates into their cage so that I
could take another fuzzie for a checkup and before I left, about 15
minutes later, I double checked the cage to make sure doors were
secured and to my horror Pebbles was hanging, by her neck, from the
outside of the cage about 3 feet off the floor. She was a petite female
like Debbie's. While I don't know exactly what happened a friend
theorized that Pebbles tried to escape her cage by going through the
bars, got her butt stuck and tried to get back through the bars and
about the time her head was back through her butt came through leaving
her hanging by her neck and as she was that far off the ground she had
no way to climb back up. I found her that way, shortly after she must
have done this. I couldn't get the bars pried apart to get her loose by
hand so I had to let her go, rush to the garage which was close by and
get wire cutters and cut her loose, of course by that time she was
gone, beyond my reach. During all this I was screaming that I knew she
was inside the cage and how could this have happened to my precious
girl. That night that cage got outfitted with hardware cloth all around
so no one else could do that. In my opinion the cage bars are too wide.
While only 1" high it is 5" wide and the small ones can squeeze through
this way too easily. The bars should be no more than 3" wide and
preferably 2" and in my opinion, if they were vertical rather than
horizontal it would be more difficult for a ferret to try and get
through. So, the moral of this story is be wary of not only Super Pet
but others too, that have openings that are too wide. I thought my baby
was safe in her cage, not so!!!! and I learned it the hard way.

Ann

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