Remember Icarus, the wax holding your feathers only melted as you soared ever higher in the sky; it did not burn. Just as the trees outside do not burst into flames on a 100 degree day, so too will your wooden cage be safe from a temperature that high. If you still have doubts, you could convince yourself by putting your cage (even better, a piece of paper) in the oven and cranking up the heat to 200, even 300 degrees. A reptile subjected to such a temperature would be dead, but your piece of paper will not have ignited.



Of course we are NOT talking here about electrical safety, where product defects or faults in wiring or installation might produce extremely high temperatures. I’m going strictly by memory, but wasn’t Canada (British Columbia?) the first to ban the original flexwatt product because of fire concerns? Just thought I’d throw that in. Maybe someone else can speak to that issue.



Yours,

Daedalus

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