Well, borrowing on a previously successful attempt of mine and some list suggestions, yesterday i made three new hammocks for my ferrets - no sewing necessary. Ingredients: One old pair sweatpants One pillowcase Scissors Hammer Kitten (from fabric store): Installable 'eyelets' - these come fairly large These can be made to fit your cage, which is the nice bit. Take the old sweatpants and stretch the leg out between the two sides of the cage it will hang from - cut it at that length. With the scissors, punch a small hole at the large, newly cut end. Punch a matching hole at the ankle end (i put it right above the elastic cuff/seam), making sure to remember that the holes must be lined up so that the leg will hang evenly. Install one eyelet in each hole - you get to bang on things with the hammer at this point! I removed the elastic from the ankle cuff because i have elastic-hungry ferrets, but you might not have to do that. Hang the new hammock up with whatever you'd like - you can use twist-ties, shoelaces, velcro, or go out and buy hooks if the kitten in your house makes it too difficult to use shoelaces for any household project. Makes two hammocks and one pair of sweat-shorts *grin*. Pillowcase: a whole pillowcase fit nicely into one of my cages, but you might need to cut extra off one of the narrow ends. Size pillowcase to fit cage, cutting size from the narrow (ie, already open), not the wide, sides, and then install eyelets in the four corners, hang, and voila. Stuff with towels and happy ferrets. These two things are very cheap - the box of eyelets costs maybe $3.00, tops - and are tremendously washable in the laundry. That is, if you dont affix them to the cage with superglue, or something like that. :) It only takes me a few seconds to remove all hammocks from all cages to toss them into the wash, and they're cheap enough to provide several for each ferret. Melissa ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Melissa Litwicki "Is it ... atomic?" [log in to unmask] "Yes! VERY atomic!" [Posted in FML issue 1807]