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Post by runningdog on Nov 26, 2017 8:55:24 GMT -5
Holly and Ivy, my two jills, both hard at work in the dig-box this morning. They’re about 8 months now - 7/8 Angora, litter-sisters, and the only way to tell them apart is that Holly has more white on her face; Ivy’s mask is much less obvious. (Also, if you pick one up and get licked it’s usually Ivy and if you get teeth resting on your skin, it’s usually Holly). From any other angle, they’re just a black streak crossing the floor, usually at high speed! The dig-box has a sort of rehydrated powdered coconut fibre stuff in it - it’s sold as a medium for reptiles and spider keepers but the ferrets adore it.
The cameo on the right is Ajax wondering if he can join in a couple of times (he didn’t) and at the end Joker, one of my ‘bino boys, shoved the whole box sideways and the girls jumped out.
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Post by Sherry on Nov 26, 2017 9:10:08 GMT -5
They are certainly having a blast in there lol
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Post by lycorisousa on Nov 26, 2017 22:31:59 GMT -5
that's adorable. I'm looking into doing some sort of dig box soon.
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Post by runningdog on Nov 28, 2017 18:01:45 GMT -5
Given how much they love their digging and how much I don’t love cleaning the floor every day after its been liberally showered with damp coconut fibre, I’m drawing up plans for a new improved bigger version. I’ve had an attack of ambition and plan to amalgamate it with a revamped ball-pit, too! It will involve keeping a lid on the box and putting in a tunnel to get in and out, in the hope of keeping the fibre in the box! I’ve bought a much bigger box tonight and marked it up by drawing round one of their bendy tunnels with a felt-tip pen in a couple of places. If I get time, tomorrow I’ll drill air-holes into the lid, jigsaw the cut-outs and feed the tunnel(s) through, fill it up with the existing lot plus two more ‘bricks’ of dried fibre and add 6 litres of water. The old dig-box will then be washed out, have air-holes and a tunnel cut-out added, and I can then stack one on top of the other, with the ferrets hopefully able to go through the big dig-box and climb up into the ball-pit to play there, too. Watch this space. If it all works, there may be a video.....
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Post by Sherry on Nov 29, 2017 12:31:42 GMT -5
I look forward to seeing what you come up with! And if the tunnel is long enough it should hopefully catch whatever they drag out of the box
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Post by runningdog on Nov 29, 2017 14:34:29 GMT -5
That’s the hope, the long tunnel containing the mess. Alas, I didn’t get time to put it together today - hopefully tomorrow instead.
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Post by runningdog on Nov 30, 2017 8:24:35 GMT -5
It nearly works. If all the ferrets were the size of Holly and Ivy, it’d be fine. (That’s Bane in the box, Achilles in the bottom left corner looking winsome. ) Unfortunately it all went pear-shaped when whopping great Loony decided to climb up to the ball pit and his weight pulled the tube out of the hole. I’ll have to find a way to fix the tubes in place more securely... I realise that my three older ferrets don’t get the kind of exposure here that the new ones do - particularly Loony, who is after all the Grand Old Man of the business and deserves better. Here he is this morning, doing his best impression of a Komodo Dragon. He’s a big fella - over 2kg at the moment, 5 years old and somewhat pear-shaped by nature, getting worse as he gets older! He doesn’t dance and dook like the youngsters these days, but he can still keep up with them in a straight-line chase - they normally get away by suddenly changing direction, which he can’t do (though it is very funny watching him skid-turn after some agile little ferret hightailing it into the distance!) or they nip through a tube he can’t fit down, which is just unfair. I was hoping to film him a bit longer but Holly had managed to jump onto a chair at the far side of the room, scaled up the back of it and was running amok on the sideboard, so I had to go catch her!
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Post by Sherry on Nov 30, 2017 11:52:58 GMT -5
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Post by runningdog on Nov 30, 2017 11:57:14 GMT -5
Something like that would be ideal - and perhaps a longer tube, so I can coil it around on itself and the ferrets have to scamper up a helter-skelter to get to the top, which would also help support their weight. I’ll have a scout around the local DIY and builders’ merchants places, see what they have that I could use.
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Post by Sherry on Nov 30, 2017 12:00:05 GMT -5
The home improvement places will be able to show you how to attach them as well.
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Post by birdyyy on Dec 29, 2017 11:39:33 GMT -5
Love the video! We just rescued two ferrets and we gave them a rice box. The didn't even know what to do with themselves. They would nuzzle underneath the rice and then back up enough to look like a wild fire hose. So sweet! <3
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Post by Sherry on Dec 31, 2017 9:40:07 GMT -5
When they are in the rice box try sprinkling rice over their backs lol. Just keep your hands well out of the way!
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Post by birdyyy on Dec 31, 2017 9:47:22 GMT -5
When they are in the rice box try sprinkling rice over their backs lol. Just keep your hands well out of the way! Oh gosh, constant dooks.
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