I wrote (while barely awake): >Anyway, I learned about a product that may be useful to some ferret >people if their ferret escapes do not occur only when humans leave. >There are now stick-on alarms which can be turned on and off to tell >when someone has wondered by the alarm. I gather they were designed to >help parents known when toddlers wander, and the advice was from nurse >for the opposite portion of the age spectrum when there is need. It >struck me that sometimes such an item might be useful for ferrets, >too. Don't know because we first had to attend to other needed repairs >and another family member is seekign the alarms. Anyway, those who have worked with anyone with senile dementia will have caught on that these are used for wAndering not wOndering seniors as well as being useful for young children. Now the rest here can stop wOndering what the heck I meant. There are people I recall whose ferrets would get window screens out, or dislodge vent pipes for drier vents, or otherwise get where they should not. Such alarms could be useful for them. The nurse had just gotten a number for her daughter who has toddlers. She said that they were someplace starting with "Wal". Can you tell that I am still exhausted even though I caught up on a bit of sleep finally today? I think she said that she found them in Walgreens (a pharmacy chain) but she might have instead mentioned Walmart. Sadly, she did not recall the product name. Sukie (not a vet) Recommended ferret health links: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/ http://ferrethealth.org/archive/ http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/ http://www.ferretcongress.org/ http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html [Posted in FML 5639]