For the last few months the Jara household has been waking up to the scratching and scrambling of a ferret as she knocks over everything she can possibly find. However, at night Selena Jara, the oldest child who keeps the ferrets in her room, has made sure that the door of the cage in locked and closed, but the ferret continues to get out.
In order to find out just exactly how the ferret is getting out I have launched an investigation to find out how. We started by going into Selena’s messy room. There are four ferrets that live in the big cage that takes up one whole wall of Selena’s room. Kit, Sky, Blackey, and Foxy are seemingly innocent pets that merely live in the cage all day long. However, the smallest and perhaps youngest ferret, Foxy, is the one who is escaping all these nights. First we looked around the cage for possible escape routes.
One choice of escape is the front door that we took from the other, smaller cage that we took apart when building the new one. It serves as two doors in one and swings out from the cage. Sometimes the door will shift out from the center and then go far to one side where the ferret would merely have to climb up the cage and slip through the opening to get out. Another way is through the back of the cage where the bars are very large and measure 4 mms wide and 4 mms long. Foxie’s head is at least five mms wide and 2 mms tall and with a lot of adjusting of her body she was able to escape through the back once in our presence but that proved a bad idea when her back half got stuck, so we eliminated that idea.
The way that Foxy gets out is still a mystery even now. Although the front door is still a very real possibility there is still no guarantee that this is so since we have yet to see her try to get out this way. I will keep surveying Foxy to see which way she actually gets out and report again next month.
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