I have seen a few posts asking about being able to own gliders and
               ferrets. I live in a one bedroom apartment and I've owned gliders a little
               over a year now but I decided I wanted ferrets because I love exotics.
                    Well, for about two months nothing went wrong, then one night I awoke to
               find one of my ferrets playing upstairs in my room when she was
               suppose to be downstairs in her cage. I picked her up and put her back
               downstairs in her cage and went back to bed(it was 4:30a) when I
               suddenly felt like something was wrong. I went downstairs and
               immediatly went to the downstairs bathroom, but nothing was there; I
               then went back to the ferret cage and looked down to find my first
               baby(the male I had gotten June of last year) in the bottom of the cage, of
               course not alive.
                   My glider escaped his and his mate's cage, and to this
               day I do not know how, and got into the ferret cage. I do not fully
               understand what happened, why he couldn't get out of a cage he
               so easily go into, but all is said and done unfortunatly. I still cry sometimes
               when I think about the little things he did to make me
               laugh. Hide and seek was his favorite game to play with his momma. But
               I still have his mate and she is doing fine, along with his(& her) two baby
               girls.
                    It took me only three weeks to sell all four ferrets I had
               acquired and now I will never own another animal that would eat or harm
               my gliders in anyway unless I have a seperate room to keep them apart.

               I just thought I would share my experience and help other people make a
               decision.