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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
oh no ! i'm so glad she is okay. i know just how you must have felt. i used to have a mesh folding laundry basket with two cloth handles. although i tried to discourage her, my cat loved to sleep in there. one night i was woken up by a strange scuffling noise ; somehow she managed get *both* the handles wrapped around her stomach, so tightly she was completely stuck (and really scared). it was so tight and so tangled that i had to cut both of them to free her, and i was really afraid when cutting them i might hurt her. it really scared me, and i was so glad it happened when i was at home ! i don't even want to think what would have happened if i hadn't been there (and been a light sleeper). now i am really careful to make sure there is nothing around she could get tangled in. i hope she learned her lesson and won't try to fit through any more tiny holes.
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Well just in case she doesn't, I've plugged all the holes up in that death trap as best as I could.
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Originally Posted by Patricia
Oh my. It seems as though if there is a tight space then some pets will just head straight for it.
Dylrob's story reminds me of the time (decades ago) when I used to babysit the nursery school hamster, during the school holidays. She was an accomplished escape artist too. At the nursery she seemed to be quite content in her cage. At my house she'd escape on a regular basis and turn up in all sorts of strange places. In the end I had to wire the cage shut, and would take her out every evening for a few hours in my daughter's playpen.
(Mind you, a hamster is not the best pet for a nursery because it is liveliest at night.)
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That reminds me... I used to have a bit of a Hamster escape artist myself. Somehow he would manage to unwork his little wheel from the side of the plastic cage.
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Originally Posted by Patricia
I wonder whether ferrets have nine lives, like cats?
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Well they do share quite a few other traits in common, so maybe.
