ME!ME!ME! :: jumping up and down and waving hand wildly in the air :: I know! PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASE!!!!!! anneinchicago wrote: >> Colburns wrote: >>The black plastic tubes that run along the Living Room cieling are >>an outstanding feature for climbing and running at all hours of the >>day and night, <snip> > >And just how are the tubes attached to the ceiling? I've been thinking >about this (Yes, all ferret owners are crazy) but have not been able >to figure out how to do this. And how do Ping & Puma get up there? > >anne Er, hmmm... These tubes are suspended in air in a manner similar to the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. I know for a FACT that Switch the Kit and Lilly took the tractor out there shortly after they learned that they would be moving to the Otter Creek wilderness. France, the frickin' pygmy hedgehog went with them, hissing all the way. And, small as her pea brain is, she was smart enough to realize that if the smelly little theives had their OWN suspension bridge, it might prevent them from using her as a roadway. (CAVEAT: See recent FML post regarding the wood stove.) Sooooooooooooooo, in the cover of a warm dark night, she snuck up to the hoomin's ear and hissed, "Eeet is time to build a breedge. You do not neeed the greeeeen thingeees hanging from the ceiling. Non, mes amies, puut them on the floor so that the smelly thieves can get een trouble, when they deeg theme up - hee hee hee. Use the hooks to hang the fursteeks from - and they will bother me no more!" Well, the silly she-hoomin has an overactive imagination - even on drugs - and SHE thought France wanted her to use the hanging plant hooks to hold the "bridge" to the ceitling. So she told the he-hoomin, who knows how to take Alex' silly ideas and create a work of art. And, he-man that he is, way-too-accommodating ferret dad Dan, used supports (really, silk ties are NOT necessary - those plastic wire ties will do) to suspend them from strategically placed plant hangers (or cup hooks or bicycle hooks) in the ceiling. Ping and Puma OWN the house, as Alexandra pointed out, so DUH! they had way-too-accomodating ferret Dad Dan connect them to the jail way-too-funny ferret Mom Alex confines them to at night. France is NOT happy and consoles herself ly watching Ping richochette across the top of the wood stove ("I TOLD you eet was hot, you furpeeg!") Ping told me the last time I was there that he is trying to find a way to get way-too-accomodating ferret Dad Dan to create an opening over the fish so he can swim whenever he takes a notion. Puma is simply eying my other nostril (did someone see John Cleese?). <sigh> So, AnneinChicago, I hope that helped clear matters up a tad bit. renee :) :: saunters off awkwardly, denasally muttering, "I've got a ferret hanging off my nose..." :: It's amazing how much can be accomplished if nobody cares who gets the credit! Ferret Emergency Response, Rescue & Evacuation Team (F.E.R.R.E.T.) http://www.ferretemergency.org [log in to unmask] International Ferret Congress http://www.ferretcongress.org American Red Cross http://www.redcross.org [Posted in FML 5582]