Hippie Emerging from a Couch Nap
If you love your couch, you will need a Couch Protection Plan. The couch is your pet ferret’s perfect environment:
- dark
- soft
- full of hidden corners
- comes with digging areas
To your ferret, the couch represents one humongous extended burrow, into which he can dig, tunnel, and excavate. Oh yes, he will excavate your sofa. First he’ll break through the fabric layer covering the bottom of your sofa. Then he or she will explore upwards into the innards of the sofa. Any padding will be dug out and end up on your rug or just laying underneath your couch.
Your pet ferret will squeeze between any wooden frame structure, in search of napping spots. They may get stuck and you will have to turn your sofa upside down and coax your weasel out. He may not want to come out, or he may be stuck. It’s hard to tell. And you can’t just grab his head and pull, of course.
Eventually, the ferret will break through and surface between the sofa cushions, when you are least expecting it. Plan for a ferret head popping up next to you as you watch TV, to your dismay as you realize where he’s come from. Now your couch has been ferretized. It is no longer your couch. It belongs to your ferret, and he will make it his home.
This is Hippy, emerging after a long couch nap. Not yet fully awake, he’s still in a half dream state, in part made possible by the dark innards of the couch environment.
You have such an interesting way of phrasing things- very funny and well-adjusted! I enjoy your posts very much- keep up the good work!
Specific to this post- Alas, we have given up on real couches, though I’ve heard it can be done (perhaps some sort of kevlar material welded to the bottom?) and have been going the futon route instead. Along with recliners, it was a sacrifice we were willing to make.
When I was a teenager and had no control over furniture choices, we had a devilish little beast of a ferret who thought the best game EVER was to sneak into the couch and bite my father’s butt when he sat on it. Needless to say this did not make him very fond of my pet, but the strange thing was that she didn’t bite anyone else’s butt. I think it was some sort of power play. The ferret eventually won, of course!
I think ferrets are cool and am thinking about getting one. My parents wouldmost likely say no. If we would happen to ever get one, mt parents wouldnt be happy if it tour up our couch.
You CAN ferret proof a couch…. kind of. The number one thing, is to replace the fabric cover over the bottom with something a bit sturdier. I prefer the thin, coated hardboard, that I can staple on, but even something like canvas or poly tarps would work. You do need to inspect it regulary.