Just when I thought I had secured every possible region of the house, Claude proved just how creatively evil he can be. I have always known that the ferrets like to sleep on my bed under the fitted sheet. I guess they feel secure under there. Well, today when I went to retrieve him, his body felt unusually spread out. I pulled back the sheet to find a bulge in the mattress! I took off all the sheets and found a huge hole in the middle of the mattress with all of the stuffing coming out. I could have killed, if I weren't so worried about my baby in there with all those springs and easily-swallowed stuffing. Fortunately he was lured out easily with the help of a piggie squeak toy. Now we just have to come up with a new plan. You know he won't stop just because we've sewed up the hole and flipped the mattress over. We plan to buy a mattress cover. Hopefully that will help the situation. I hope this has alerted you to a potential danger area. On to some better news. I have come up with an extremely cheap and well-liked idea for a hammock. All I did was take an old t-shirt and poke a few holes in each end. Then I strung thick hockey skate laces through the holes, tying large knots at the openings so there is no slippage. Then I tied the laces to the rungs of the cage. After a few days of ignoring it, my guys absolutely love it! And it didn't cost me a cent. I hope these ideas help! Becky Claude and Marisol [Posted in FML issue 1644]