We had 3 solid wooden doors cut into indoor Dutch Doors. Now the washer closet can be closed safely with us still having access to the drier so the ferrets are safer, and when we have one who can defeat barriers we can just close the bottom half of the Dutch doors. They are making life much simpler. In one case we had the door frame replaced and the door put going in the other direction to eliminate a place the ferrets found to be the perfect skinny potty place. They have much better elimination habits now. Also, it turns out that almost all of them LOVE to swing the bottom half of the Dutch Doors when those are open and when the sliding latch doesn't have the tops and bottoms connected. Open, close, open, close, open, close. This is making me think that maybe we should replace the pantry door, and wondering if it might be possible to work a window or two with push up bars into the tops of new bathroom doors so there is privacy but better air circulation and steam circulation when desired. Many Victorian and Edwardian age homes in the NE used to have that feature for bathroom doors. I can recall it in the homes of a number of older family members. 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 6164]