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Hi all, on a run of hot weather in East Anglia right now and my ferrets keep a low profile when temperatures are above 25C. To keep life tolerable for them I put  freezer packs wrapped in old tea towels in sleeping areas and use a garden umbrella for some additional shade. How do others deal with hot weather? 

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52 minutes ago, Luckee legs said:

Hi all, on a run of hot weather in East Anglia right now and my ferrets keep a low profile when temperatures are above 25C. To keep life tolerable for them I put  freezer packs wrapped in old tea towels in sleeping areas and use a garden umbrella for some additional shade. How do others deal with hot weather? 

As you do I put two bottles off frozen water in there box feed them on bit's of frozen chicken or rabbit I have mine in a shed sometimes I put a fan on them works well it's up side down lol again don't know why that happens ? 

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I use the fine sprinkler heads that they use on ferns and have a berry fine mist of water. I am not a fan on using anything that is electric if their is a power outage. But in Australia our temperature can reach up to 40 degrees for several days. 

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