Today I learned an important lesson about fitted liners..

[NewChinGuy]

This evening(a few minutes ago) I walked over to Nymira's cage to see if she was awake. I looked all around the two level Ferret Nation, and was shocked to find that I couldn't find her. Initial panic was that she had escaped somehow and was now trapped somewhere in the apartment, or chewing on a cable somewhere. However I noticed quickly a small lump under her fleece liner- and then feared she was dead. I opened the door to reach in and grab her, fearing the worst, and suddenly the lump moved. Nymira knows the sound of the doors opening now, so whenever I open the spring latches she comes running. The lump started scurrying towards one corner of the cage, and then a little face peered out to see what was happening. Apparently she's pulled a corner of the fleece up and has now made a hiding place underneath the liner- the fleece isn't fitted or sewn, it's literally just wrapped around the pan for now and I'm not surprised that she pulled it up.

Also, the obligatory pictures before I go fix the liner so she doesn't crawl under one day and suffocate.

Bonus Picture: She loves her hammock!

 

[halfstache]

I have several that do this all the time and it drives me nuts. They just started doing it one day out of nowhere. It was like one of them got the idea, tried it out, and then told all the others about how awesome it is to hide under the fleece. I'm using bass pans with fleece liners set into the pans and held in place with heavy objects on each corner. Doesn't seem to matter to the little buggers, they just push and shove on things until they get their way and burrow under. I keep worrying that they are going to get too hot under there, but they seem to like it.

 

[ljiayi]

You could use safety pins to pin the excess together hidden away on the underside? That way the fleece would be taut.

 

[NewChinGuy]

Yeah, I'm going to be changing out the liners shortly because these ones have way too much excess, and those ones will be sewn together so that I don't have to worry about it. I keep thinking the same thing Halfstache does- I'm fearful I'll come home and find she's either suffocated or had a heatstroke. That, and when she's crawling around the poop in her cage goes flying- it's like she's cleaning it herself