With very warm/hot weather approaching I like to repost this as a reminder on how I keep my ferrets safe from the heat: Several years ago while at our campground our air conditioning in our trailer quit and boy did the heat start rising quickly. We also have a large screened in front porch so I took the cage with the ferrets on the porch to get a little relief from the heat in the trailer. Then I remembered I always kept lots of frozen 20oz water bottles in the freezer for fear something like this would happen. I also had bought some tube socks at a thrift store to keep up there ...So I had the makings of a semi air conditioner to put in their cage!!! What I did was put the frozen water bottles in the socks leaving both ends of the sock to put thru the cage wires and then used a large safety pin to pin together. I did this on 3 sides of the cage. Since the litter box kept me from putting the water bottle along the floor I just put it above the litter box and anchored it there with each end of the sock out the cage wire and pinned. I also did this on the bottom level the same way and since I had one more bottle left I put that on the inside top of the cage and pinned that extra tight so it wouldn't fall. I also had an ice cube tray that makes those tube ice cubes made for the bottle drinks to add those to their water bottles if needed. I then added a sheet to cover the whole cage. My cage is a medium size 2 level cage that I separate the levels to keep 2 sets of ferrets in. Well I have to say....I gave it about an hour and decided to peak in to see how they were doing (I actually checked on them several times before this) ... I lifted the sheet, opened the cage door and couldn't believe how nice and cool it was in there...my ferrets were comfy and the water bottles were still solid!!! I hurried up and closed the sheet up around the cage to keep the cool air in.... I also had put them by the ceiling fan on the porch so the air could also cool them thru the sheet and spread the coolness that was already inside. I only wished I could of crawled into that cage... My husband had to go all the way home to get the freon to put in the a/c unit since that was the problem why it didn't work...(my husband used to do that kind of work so we always had a bottle of this stuff). All turned out well and we probably could of kept the cage cooler for a longer period of time but about 6 hours later the a/c was fixed and everything was back to normal. We could of picked up and went back home but that is my weekend R&R and I had the ferrets cooled but if the freon didn't work thenI wouldn't hesitate to pack up and leave. This worked for me and now I always have a freezer full of frozen water bottles just in case... I also do this at home since we are more likely to have power outages in the extreme heat... At home we have the ferret nation cages so I am thinking of freezing a couple 2 liter bottles to put in them... **Please keep filled, frozen water bottles of any size available to help cool your ferret cage. Jackie At the bridge: Sierra, Cinnabun, Snowflake, Furrari & Koda At the bridge: Taz, Opie, Harvey, Buster, Plato, Cybil, Simon, Coby, Peanut, Lexi, Bandit, Mo, Echo, Precious, BumbleBear, Dominic, Mindy, Trance, Adrian, Hershey, Honey, Laney, Voodoo, Wally, Sir Duke, Zipper, Duchess Ferret Fun things: http://jackiesdecals.webs.com/ http://stores.ebay.com/FERRET-STUFF-Plus-More [Posted in FML 7462]