From:
Caitlyn Martin
Date: 2010-01-11 22:42:08 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] Safety tubes for ramps to help elderly ferrets
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
Sounds like a great idea, Sukie! Thanks for the tip.
Our ferrets love high hammocks. To mainly protect Ella, who is nearly
eight and blind but still climbs as high as she can, we decided to do
several layers of hammocks at different heights and horizontal
positions throughout the cage. If Ella missteps and falls she just
lands in another hammock not far away.
Regards,
Caity and the terrific trio
Ella, Zephyr and Chin Soon (in order of age)
On 1/11/10, Sukie Crandall <sukie@mac.com> wrote:
> Two of our ferrets are elderly and feeling it to some extent. Now, we
> place hammocks so that there are not long falls, but still we wanted
> their ramps to be safer and after trying several things we came up
> with a solution. I sewed ties in four places on crinkle tubes -- the
> kind that always stay open because there are stiff circles already
> sewn into them -- and then just place them on top of the ramps and tie
> them to the side of the cage. They work wonderfully and the ferrets
> here have been happily using them for weeks now.
>
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