let's talk about how to make a ferret cage it's a lot easier to buy a commercial ferret cage obviously because they're designed to be safe and secure already and so if you're going to make one you want to design it close to those types of specifications the first thing is you want a ferret cage to be long enough to wear a ferret can move around and play and and just get exercise the second thing you want to think about is is it wants these to be tall enough to wear ferrets can move in a multi-level fashion as well materials would be based around using a coated wire that a ferret cannot get through because they can get through small little passageways or small little openings so it obviously needs to be there needs to be a secure top secure size and secure bottom the door has to be very secure because they're good at opening latches and things like that because they're very smart and they're escape artists now in a homemade cage you're going to have bedding like recycled newspaper bedding that can get at pet stores or corn cob based beddings things like that you're also on when going to have a shallow litter pan because ferrets are litter trained just like cats are and so that works very well on one end on the other end you're going to use your water bottle water source and a shallow dish for the ferret approved food that you're going to have them on generally a dry food also in your cage that needs to be kind of multi-leveled and a hammock works very well for them they like to lay in hammocks and lounge drown and those and then lastly you're going to want to put some ferret toys in there so they can play with and keep occupied when you're not there and so you know check with your pet store on specifications as far as ferret cages are concerned and just make sure it's escape-proof and safe