Hello, we have a problem that I am hoping that someone else has had and can help us alleviate. Well, we have 3 pretty docile critters (except during raisan time and kill the bag time) who are confined in the living room by two baby gates with cardboard on them (so they do not climb the grating). Well, we merrily bound over them to get to the rest of the apartment, and have been doing so for over 5 months. Well, Sparky, our 11 month old male, also wants to follow us, so he has taken to leaping. (golly Batman, leaping ferrets). Well, he now jumps up to the top of the gate and gets over. that is fine, excepts he then goes on to uproot all the plants in the rest of the house. Then, to make matters worse, he will go back into the living room and pretend he was asleep. It took us two nights of staying up and hiding to catch him doing it. So, until we come up with a solution, he is confined to the cage at night and when we are gone. Does anyone have any ideas? Those darn baby gates are about 2 feet tall as it is. We thought him too stupid to learn to do this (he is still scared of luggage for some reason -- he runs and hides when we come home with any large bags). Well, hopefully we can figure something out soon, boy does he hate that cage!! (I swear he is going to break off his teeth biting through that cage). Thanks in advance for any help, Susan, Darel, Sparky, Roo, Boing ^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^^ me hubby leaper normal ferrets [Posted in FML issue 0624]