Electric Fireplaces

by Julia V
(Olympia WA)

My ferret, Billy, had just been with us for about a month when he managed to get behind our electric fireplace which, thank god, wasn't working at the time.

He squeezed through a one inch gap and got behind it. Fortunately we noticed right away and were able to lure him out with raisins before he got into any real trouble. Still, he could have easily fallen into the crawl space from there.

This had to be on Thanksgiving, of all days, when we had company who got to witness me with fishing around in a fireplace for a ferret.