Air Ducts and Ferrets Oh My!

by Krystal
(Irwin PA)

My ferret Kaluha is such a curious little girl! One of her favorite hidding spots was underneath the kitchen cabinets. Because the bottom of the cabinet pulls up and I saw nothing that she could possibly get into, I cleaned out the cubboard and let her go to town.

Six months later (yes it took that long) I noticed her missing. I looked in all her hiding spots and soon heard a scritch scratching noise coming from the heat vents. I soon realized my girl found a small opening in the wall behind the wallpaper of what used to be and old heat vent before they converted my three story house into three apartments. Since I live on the second story, when she clawed through the wallpaper and fell, she fell two stories straight to the basement of my neighbors apt. Luckily they were home and they were nice enough to let me in their home to extract her from the vent.

Amazingly enough besides being filthy she was completly unhurt. Just in case I took her to the vet who also was amazed she fell that far down and was unhurt. Since then I have totally blocked off the old vent and have not allowed her to get into the cupboard any more. It amazes me to this day she even knew that hole was behind the wallpaper when I saw no signs of anything there. It just looked like a plain old wall to me...