I always keep Mukluk in his cage except for night where he runs loose in the bedroom and he eventually crawls under the bed spread to sleep with me. I have often said if a ferret wants to get someplace for sure he/she will get there. I did let Mukluk run loose around the house for a bit and he loved that and wanted to explore ore so he searched the cage for a way out. For sure he found it. I have a constant feed water bottle so they can drink naturally and as much as they want any time. He figured that if he shoved it to one side he could squeeze out thru the hole, which is exactly what he did. I had a different water bottle there but it developed a hole rubbing against the cage wire. That company no longer makes them so I had to get another kind. Unfortunately it is smaller and does not fit as well. Mukluk made the best of that. I was laying on the couch watching TV and felt this motion under the blanket and for sure it was Mukluk. I checked the cage and all the doors were closed. In a bit I figured out how he got out. Being late at night I put a couple bricks up to cover the hole but Mukluk moved them to make his own personal fire place ! I can't imagine him getting to that chain saw to cut loose. So I got up early this morning, Mukluk made sure of that. He pestered the skrank out of me till I got up. But I left him in the bedroom while I made a patch over the now bigger hole. I saved every scrap of wire from the cages I built and for sure all that has come in so very handy over the years. I made a custom shaped patch over the hole and fastened it in place so he would need a gas torch to cut it out. I expect to come next. Have to keep him away from Ebay and mail order catalogues. With the patch in place and fixed solid so it can't be wrestled out, I put him back into the cage. He immediately went to the water bottle area way down on the bottom floor and then to where the hole used to be. I heard a loud 'DANG !!!!' when he discovered the new patch. There was some other blue ferret words but I will spare you from them. So Mukluk is now safely in his cage curled up in his hidy hole box Another case cracked !!!!! Gordon and Mukluk. _12-2Addy CEO [Posted in FML 8044]