I need pictures of your ferrets room

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I have a friend who is going to remodel her garage into her ferret shelter. Currently the shelter is in the house, mostly upstairs except for a small group that runs downstairs. At the moment, there are about 60 ferrets. She is planning on having the walls insulated, new insulated garage doors, new exterior doors with security screens, a fridge, sink and counter, heat and air, and the floor will have a epoxy on it so clean up is easy. She will have about 4 areas that will have groups of ferrets, and one large area as a play area. There will be cages on one wall, but they are always open so all ferrets will have free roam of their room and free roam of the play area. Does anyone have any pictures or ideas that might help us to visualize this area? Hopefully having the shelter out of the house will be easier on her so she doesn't have to keep running up and down stairs all day.
Thanks in advance

[Lily]

I'd be glad to help you but Noah is a free roamer in the whole house. I'm sure some folks here can help out though with their ferret rooms

[huronna]

My ferrets are also free roamers, in fact all my ferrets have lived that way.

Having a shelter is a very big responsibility. I hope she has hands on help, and a big cash reserve for when they need medical care. My friend had a shelter for about 4 years, the numbers ranged from 23-35. She finally had to stop as she could not financially take care of their medical needs and basically I was her only back-up. People always have a tendency to bring their sick ones to shelters because they can't take care of them or don't want to spend the money. Many of the ferrets I adopted had to have numerous vet appts.

[greta]

My ferrets are free roam also, although they do have their own room. They share my bedroom and it's not very large, housing their cage, two 30 gallon bins which contain their bedding and their toys plus my queen size bed and other bedroom furniture. So, as you can see, a pic of my kids' room wouldn't be much help for someone who has a shelter in mind. I wish your friend the best of luck in opening her new shelter. As Huronna says, this is a huge challenge and is very demanding both time wise and financially. Hugs, Greta

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Linda has been the shelter operator for over 10 years. She runs the Ferrets with Soul(e) Rescue and Shelter, I'm sure several of you know her, she lives in Gardnerville NV. She's just moving the shelter from upstairs in the bedrooms to downstairs in the garage. All of hers are free roamers with the exception of 6 who are out all night long from about 8pm until around 9am, then they get caged until 8 pm that night, they are the bully's, the ones that beat everyone else up I just thought maybe I could find some pictures on how to help her design it. She does have an architect who is gong to design it, though he does large commerical buildings.
What would you like for your ferrets, to make your job easier in caring for them, if you could have anything you wanted in their area?

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My hubby made our Ferret room. He used 2x4 and shower wall plastic in removable 5 ft sections. The floor is unattached linoleum. Everything can be removed and taken outside for easy cleaning. Hope this helps.

[Deleted]

Thank you Slinky, I love it. How did your husband attach it to the floor? Keep them coming.

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It's not actually attached to the floor but it is heavy enough that it can't be moved by fuzzies. We made it that way so that it can be taken apart and cleaned every now and then.

[greta]

Here's a list of some of the things which would be nice to have in my fur kids' room:
A sink w/hot and cold running water over a storage vanity
A chest of drawers of some type specifically for storing ferret bedding/supplies, etc.
A waste receptacle that's out of the reach of the ferrets
A countertop for use when bathing my boys and for use for medical treatment purposes
Wall shelves positioned high enough to be accessable to me and out of the reach of the ferrets I hope this helps you. Hugs, Greta

[dee517]

Here are some pictures of my ferret room. We have three cages in the room that are kept most of the time. The single story cage is the sick cage

[Lily]

What wonderful rooms !!