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Post by Heather on Apr 26, 2011 21:02:37 GMT -5
Who needs thumbs when you're a ferret. Mad Max showing you how to open cupboards without thumbs.  I never did actually see him open the closet doors but how he got up into the top of the closet was by using the clothing and my DH's suit carrier which hung down from a hanger. I presently don't have any ferrets as smart as Mad Max. As big a pain as he was I miss him...a lot ciao |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2011 21:51:31 GMT -5
What a beautiful and smart fuzz  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2011 22:15:04 GMT -5
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Post by joan on Apr 26, 2011 22:53:59 GMT -5
All 7 of my current crew are expert at opening cupboard doors, which is why the ones which are off limits to them are bungee corded shut.  |
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Post by Sherry on Apr 26, 2011 23:01:31 GMT -5
Bungie cording our cupboards wouldn't have worked with the existing handles, but Cliff was working on putting on strong clips to make them really hard to open. In the interim, duct tape was my best friends ;D At least until Sinnead learned how to pull a corner of it loose, grab it in her mouth, and slowly back up  Unfortunately, she also showed the others how to get it off ;D |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2011 23:10:31 GMT -5
You mean bungy cords as in them rubber chew toys even i can't resist chewing on and maby swallowing rubber won't hurt?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2011 1:28:40 GMT -5
I use those plastic child-proofing clips that you screw into the backside of the cupboard door and have to push down to get it open...it always throws guests off ;D. I've also puttied every gap around every pipe, used liquid nails to board up holes under the cupboards, screw-gunned plywood on the bottom of my couches, canvassed the bottom of my box-spring, duct-taped carpet protectors in doorways where they might dig, built sliding under-the-door blockers out of PVC tubes and ripstop nylon to keep my girl from squeezing into off-limits rooms, sewed custom pee-pads for around the litterboxes, labelled safe and unsafe windows to have open when it's nice out, and rearranged furniture to make sure they can't leapfrog to counters, then re-rearranged furniture when free-roaming built up their skills enough to make the jumps anyway  . The things we do for these guys ;D. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2011 23:13:08 GMT -5
I waited long enough on this thread, i think I'll ask, ok,
Door: solid hickory 3 inches thick
door also: locked 4 times.
Floor: solid concrete
Floor also: solid concrete, perfect formula stronger then titanium.
crack of door: barly wide enough for a ferret germ to fit through.
Carpet: doesn't exist.
Object: keep the ferret out of the room.
IS it FErrET proof?
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Post by Sherry on Apr 27, 2011 23:51:39 GMT -5
Depends on whether or not they decide to melt underneath or not ;D
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2011 11:37:06 GMT -5
Depends on whether or not they decide to melt underneath or not ;D LOL I swear sherry there are times I think that IS the only way they could have gotten in somewhere! |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2011 12:59:47 GMT -5
I velcroed my wardrobe door shut. So far...so good...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2011 17:06:33 GMT -5
Will that keep them from chewing on the string of a bow like a mean bow hateing dog did? Jj of my grandparents houses who is my uncles dog chewed the string off a bran new large 29 pound recurve bow. How would I keep one out of a ferrets reach if its one day me with a bow and chewer pet?
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Post by Sherry on Apr 28, 2011 20:58:42 GMT -5
Put it on the top shelf of a closet and close the door!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2011 21:04:18 GMT -5
And other then that life stays the same.
Answer, ferrets are so smart so they can solve problems, device strategy for getting food, survival, and to add to their awesomeness:) Also so they can closer understand their family.
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