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Anonymous
Reporting from WV here, /an/, and it is so goddamn hot. Also, our air conditioner is broke, and wont be fixed for a few days. I've frozen milk jugs of water, put them on bottom of cage, taken the ferrets out of direct sunlight, and put them outside where it's less humid.

I'm just hoping they don't stroke on me until the a/c gets fixed. One of them, before the milk jug solution started panting/coughing, then screaming. Bad stuff. Fuck hot weather. LIVE MY FERRETS. LIVE.
>> Anonymous
I'd suggest, if you can, see if a friend or family member will let you stay with them if they have A/C until your's is fixed.

If you can't try giving them a small pan of very shallow cold water with some ice cubes in it and try misting their fur if they don't hate water. My ferrets love the pan idea but the misting agitates them so I just take a damp paper towel and wet them down every so often. Also another thing that may or may not work for you, get thin slabs of clean flat stone or tile and setting it out for them to lay on; I have stone coasters and I cycle them from the freezer to their cages. My ferrets don't lay directly on it but they lay next to it instead.

Good luck on keeping your ferrets cool until you get your A/C fixed.
>> Anonymous
I had one of those small portable refrigerators that used thermocouples instead of a compressor. I sat it on top of the cage with the door open and it kept the air remarkably cool. This works best if the cage is in a corner, obviously.
>> Anonymous
If you have a fan. put an ice tray or two infront of their cage, face the fan is blowing the cold air from the ice trays into the cage. Or you can always mist them with some water therefore helping them "sweat" with the fan blowing on them.

For my ferrets we built them a little wooden box. We put 2-3 bottles of water in the box, and they typically sleep in it, with the water bottles its much cooler in there.
>> Anonymous
last summer it was verry hot in my up stairs where my cat was staying (because of our new dog) my upstairs gets verry hot as its really the attic, i opened all the windows, put fans in them and got a bunch of thick pottery (heavy and solid stone ware- all kinds pitchers bowls and plates, i stuck them in the freezer for a whole day, took them out and filled the pitchers and the deeper bowls with ice, a thick ceramic peice will insulates the cold very well, the ice would last in the hot room for about 7 hours, i always found the cat sitting with them, i am sure this worked, try it in your ferrite cage- it will at least keep them cool for a few hours
>> Anonymous
>>259908
Yah man thats exactly what i was going.
Also we bath towel put in freezer for 20 min and place over cage. Repeat and replace every hour or so.