From:
"Tony Clarke"
Date: 2007-07-02 18:05:43 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: hind leg loss of use & incontinence
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
--- In ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com, lisaatty@... wrote:
>
> question - do you let your ferrets have free unsupervised roam in
a room or an
> area, or are you always somewhere nearby when they are out so
they don't get
> into trouble?? I want to give my girls lots of daily time out, and
based on
> other obligations, I can't stay in their room 3 or more hours a
day.......even
> though I do spend *lots* of time with them. This may be a good
discussion
> for the group.
> Thanks again. Lisa and Lily and her sisters
>
My ferrets have free roam of 3 rooms (sometimes 4) and stairs to
first floor and upstairs landing.
They frequently scare me with death defying leaps and mountaineer
like climbing. So far in 8 years I havn't had an accident that caused
any injury at all.
My 1 y/o clears 30ins. many times a day from chair back to table.
She will run up the chair to the seat back if she see me coming and
then leaps onto me as I pass and some times mistimes it and misses
and lands on the floor (34 in. drop). I have caught her in mid air
several times. My now deceased polecat Sue used to run downstairs
at full speed and jump off the third step (26 in. high) and land 3 ft.
into the room and never break stride.
Sugar, my 2 y/o albino climbs on to kitchen work tops just using
the drawer handles and they both can climb 6 ft. up between fridge
and wall using the mountaineers bridging technique that my ferrets
pass from generation to generation like some kind of ferret folk lore.
I have tried many ways to try to stop this madness but some things
you can't move (like the stairs) and if you do fix one problem they
then find something else to scare you with.
Anyway they seem to enjoy the freedom and I will keep my fingers
crossed having got reid of the worst hazards.
Tony (not a vet), Sugar and Suki.
In memory of Sally and Sue.
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