We purchased this cage via Amazon.com. Marshall Ferret Cage
The ferrets adapted to it very quickly. We bought an additional ramp for them to be able to climb in and out of the cage, but they really didn’t like it. Cage ramp FYI, there is absolutely nothing wrong with the ramp, just our ferrets were very unsure on it, perhaps due to not being familiar with wire ramps. They handle the shorter wire ramps inside the cage fairly well.
The assembly was easy, i did it by myself with no help.
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So, we took a section of drainage pipe (the 4″ – 5″ black pipe with holes in it you use at the bottom of a roof gutter pipe to drain water out into the yard) and covered it in fabric inside and out (to give their claws some purchase). I bought an elbow for the tube and put it on one end. Then I drilled a small hole in the elbow and put some thick wire through it so that it can be hooked to the cage wall. 10 feet of this pipe runs about $5.20 at your local Home Depot and can make an endless variety of ferret amusements. They navigate it fairly easily. Loki will be waiting impatiently for me to connect this tube when I let them out for play. Tyanak (Shay) is a little princess and waits in the top of the cage for me to pick her up and put her on the floor. She navigates the tube just fine as I’ve seen her go in and out when she wants to and I’m not nearby. So spoiled!
The cage is huge, almost too much for just two ferrets. But since they spend the day in it while we are at work, I figure the more room the better. It’s basically two cages put together, and if we were to be so crazy we could add another addition to put on top. But then the cage would almost reach the ceiling! I love the removable plastic trays which are the floors. it makes everything very easy to clean. And the fact that the whole front opens (4 doors) everything inside is easily reachable. The only thing that I’d probably be happier with is if the tray on the bottom of the cage had taller edges. Loki is hit or miss with the litter box and likes to back up to the edge of the cage which results in a few messes on the walls of the cage and sometimes out of the cage! I put newspaper on the floor and up the walls a bit, but it doesn’t take him long to rearrange that to his liking, which usually means it laying flat and the walls being exposed again.
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Shay got to keep her fish that she came with, but otherwise we put all new hammocks and bedding. I made a small hammock and bought 2 cheap ones at PetSmart. And, we HAD to get them this Pirate Ship.
I’m considering getting a larger litter box for inside the cage as I’ve read a few places that one reason a ferret might not use a smaller box is that they like having all 4 feet flat and inside the box when they use it. Now for Shay this isn’t quite true as when she uses the litter box she puts her front feet on the lip of the litter box no matter how big it is, but it might be true for Loki. When he uses the larger litter box that we have in the bathroom he gets all his feet in.
Other than that, I think our spoiled little weasels are happy in their new home. In fact, they put themselves back in it for sleep time!
