I've had a scare like that too :S My little girl Lilah likes to sleep on the power cords behind the TV, coz it's so warm.
One day I found her there after searching for a bit and she wouldn't move. I was so scared but I reasoned that she may just be in dead sleep mode. I woke her up but she was still really lethargic and just went back to sleep. I called the vet and described her behavior, but the vet said that if she was electrocuted the whole house would have blocked out momentarily.
Regardless, I carried her around in a handbag filled with blankets for the rest of the day untill she started acting like herself again :) She turned out to be fine though...just sleepy I guess.
Dec 24, 2009 Rating
Burnt Macaroni by: Anonymous
Oh wow! What a story and how very, very fortunate for your little Macaroni that she only suffered light burns on her tootsies.
Thank you for sharing that and I would urge all ferret owners to take note and also take the necessary precautions that such a thing never happens to their ferret.
Funnily enough I heard a story from a friend who said that a ferret owner she knew had a total blackout caused by a ferret piddling on the powerboard!
Good thing her ferret didn't end up frizzled from that little caper. Sheesh!
