Ferret Nation pics, everybody post your FNs here!!

[Scubbs]

Freshly cleaned tonight 



Yes, there's always a fish plushie in the cage now 






Nigel never cares for my picture-taking sessions, and usually just sits and eats    You can see a little tongue action in this picture!

[fluffy pluffy]

  Scubbs,I adore your themes and steups,but uh,how often do you clean that cage,every time you post you say it's right after a cage-cleaning! 

[Scubbs]

I spot clean the cage every other day, which basically means completely cleaning the top portion of the FN, and sometimes the shelf on the bottom.  I fully clean the cage every 4-5 days 

[asha_dee2007]

heyy yaa!!!
here is some pics of my explorer couldnt afford the fn like all you posh people
so here it is!
im waiting till i get paid! then i am going to spend spend spend in scubbs' shop:D

TOP

BOTTOM

[Cigar]

Asha, you've got one of those little spaceship thingies (the green and yellow hanging thing). Sputnik I think they were called? I found one and my rats LOVE it but I can't seem to find anymore and the only ones I ever saw were blue.

[asha_dee2007]

hiya cigar!
yes they are called sputniks, but that one is a XL sputnik,
there a quiet a few people who sell them here in the uk.
i know a lady that sells them ill found out if she ships to usa

[Scubbs]

Wow, I absolutely ADORE that pink flower fleece you have for the floor liners, asha_dee2007!!

[Oh!Rats!]

I would love to hear about the sputnik too and if she ships and how much they are; they are REALLY cool!   

Scubbs, IS THERE EVER a chance you would post what it actually looks like when its dirty?  I don't think anything is EVER dirty over there!  Do you sleep?  I don't know how you have time for it all! 

[Cigar]

hiya cigar!
yes they are called sputniks, but that one is a XL sputnik,
there a quiet a few people who sell them here in the uk.
i know a lady that sells them ill found out if she ships to usa

Thankyou!! I would really appreciate this. I'm not from the US but I have lots of friends there who would be kind enough to ship it over to me.

[fluffy pluffy]

I spot clean the cage every other day, which basically means completely cleaning the top portion of the FN, and sometimes the shelf on the bottom.  I fully clean the cage every 4-5 days 

Uhh,sure..I lost you at the part as to how you keep it so clean! I agree with Oh! Rats!,do you even sleep? 

[Scubbs]

Sleep?  What's that?   

I'll get pictures next time it looks dirty!  But for the most part, even when it IS dirty, you can't really see it because I straighten things anytime I'm near the cage, and put poops in the litterbox. 

[Leslie Marie]

Oh man. I need some double decker hammocks! I'm definitely going to have to bug scubbs on one of my next couple pay days. xD

[cheerio]

Hi all. I'm so excited, just got my first FN last night!  Found it on Craigslist for $100 bucks for the 2 story, it's in almost mint condition other than it was missing it's second story pan, but the guy I bought it from gave me a replacement that just needs to have a hole cut into it (I plan on making some fun slip covers for my trays with buttons keeping them closed off). That's convenient for me right now, as I have 2 young boys that are currently banished to the bottom until I can get the top portion wired like the bottom. Thought they were big enough not to squeeze through, boy was I wrong.  I have screen put up temporarily on the outside because I was too impatient to get everything set up, and I will be looking into hardware cloth. I may go ahead and hardware cloth the top and then switch them out while I work on the bottom. Little houdinis.    These ideas are awesome for cage decoration, I've already bought a lot of fun flannel prints for them. Yay! No more care fresh and yesterday's news lol. I had them in a 2 story super pet cage, but this is like a mansion. And it's also a good excuse for more ratties lol.  I will definitely be posting pics as I add goodies to their cage.

[Oh!Rats!]

Hey Leslie Marie; what's the red stuff around the bottom?  Is that to keep crud from falling out?  I LOVE that idea!  Where did you get it and what is it ? 

[Leslie Marie]

Cheerio: Congrats! That's an Awesome deal! =D

Oh!Rats!: I got the idea from a chinchilla/hedgehog forum. Alot of People who modify the FN's for their hedgehogs add this. =D  I bought some of those flexible cutting boards from the dollar store and cut them to size, and then weaved them through the bars. =D It took 8 of them to do the whole cage. xD So far it's helped extremely well to keep food and litter in the cage rather then on my floor, which is what I was hoping for. 

[cheerio]

  for all of those with FNs, puh-lease help! I modded the top half of my cage last night, worked out really well (other than the scratches I managed to give myself), used colorful & fun zip ties and hardware cloth this time on the inside (unfortunately I could only get the galvanized, and the people I encountered last night at Home Depot managed to deplete my brain cells while they were attempting to use their own ). I'm waiting to finish the bottom half before cutting a hole in the top pan for double teir access (also a decision from my fiance on if I can possibly adopt 2 more little monsters, the cage looks kinda empty with just my 2 boys in there  lol, and it would be nice to have the top and bottom separate for intros) How do you keep the cage clean in terms of um.....the visible? I am now using fleece, my boys seem to really like it. This is new for me since I'm used to CareFresh, as there are the visible...presents they leave me. There is no smell, and I don't notice urine, it's just the other  . My boys are messy....and more than just a little . Any ideas on litterbox training? They have one, they just like to tip it over  . I am looking at everyone's set ups to see what may be more conducive for me, and may help with the mess. Any ideas? I will be making tons more hammocks now that I have the space (there just wasnt enough room in my superpet cage) and the little sleep pocket things too! Bought great print fleece at walmart, but I must say, there's definitely more fun stuff for girls

[Leslie Marie]

hmm.. My rats seem to have just trained them selfs.   What are you putting in your liter boxes?  I tried carefresh at first, but it was too easy for them to just tip over. So I switched over to yesterdays news, which is a nice heavy litter, and seems to stop them from doing it. =D
As for 'noticables'  I just go threw about twice a day a scoop up any if there is any, and put it in their litter box. My rats are to the point now though, that I usually don't have to pick anything up. 

[cheerio]

Thanks! I have yesterday's news in there, its new to them as I was using care fresh before. My boys are still young, so I guess that could be it too. I can appreciate that at least they only go in the cage. Thats a start 

[Scubbs]

Does anyone still want to see dirty cage pictures? 

[NYDaisy]

I do!! haha!

[fluffy pluffy]

Does anyone still want to see dirty cage pictures? 

Yes,please! 

[wickedrodent]

*nod*

[Scubbs]

Oh god, the horror!  Okay, okay... it's cleaning time now, so I'll go grab the camera before I start    It feels so... wrong!

[undergunfire]

To tide you over before Chelsey posts her "dirty: impossible" cage...here is mine  ....

[wickedrodent]

Did you make that fishy Chelsey? *wants one*

[Scubbs]

Oh god no    You can get it at Ferret.com.  I have a couple of them, but the rats are quickly destroying them    Well actually, not as quickly as I thought, since there's always one or the other in the cage, and it's been that way for a couple months!

Halfway done cleaning -- I took the oh-my-god-so-gruesome dirty pics.  THE SHAME!!!

UGF -- I love the cage this time around!  Much more colorful 

[Scubbs]

Okay, here it is for all to see! 



Why poop in the litter box when you can do it right outside it?


Showing the full extent.  The top shelf is the messiest part of the cage 


Plushie fish innards and more skewed poops that didn't QUITE make it to the litter box


The bottom, with hammocks and Waffle Block house removed.  The bottom half of the FN doesn't really get all that dirty.  They mostly just go down there to eat and sometimes hop on the wheel 


Oh god, poop in the hammock!


Then I took all the dirty towels, fleece blankets/scraps and hammocks out, and sprayed the cage down with a vinegar/water solution.  I let it sit for a few minutes and then wiped it dry.  I washed the cage accessories (litter boxes, igloo, Waffle Block houses, wheels) with soap and water in the sink.  Then I added fresh "rat linens," boxes, and clean litter pans 


And finally, all is right with the world again!  It took me foreeeever to clean tonight, I think because I made so many new hammocks for my rats this past week that I couldn't decide what to use.  I kept putting something up and then taking it down 


Don't worry, a clean fish plushie was added after taking the pics.  God forbid they be without one 




And there you go!  Happy now? 

[cheerio]

Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but since it's about FNs, maybe it is. I was wondering how people keep their fleece down in their cages, as well as what are the pattern sizes for your pans, trays and hammocks? If you don't want to share, I definitely understand, just looking to make my own (broke right now  ) Now that I have this room, I've got fleece down, the boys like it a lot more, but the lame hammock I bought definitely isn't cutting it, I want it out!!! It's horrible colors compared to the rest of my cage, and now that it's being used properly, I need to make them a good one like they deserve. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Ratty Krazy]

Okay so I don't know about you guys but Scubb's "dirty" cage looks alot like my "clean" cage....

[undergunfire]

My cage looks a lot like Chelsey's in the way of "dirty"  . Spot cleaning!

Dirty or not, still lovely!