Dear FML:
 
We are the proud parents of two sable female furries. Samantha (5 months) &
 Alex(3 months).  We have three litter boxes placed around our one bedroom
 apartment and our girls have chosen the one under the sofa as the litter box to
 use most often.  As we are sure you can summize this litter box is very
 difficult to clean.  Does anybody have any suggestions as to how we can get our
 girls to use
the litter boxes equally or to stop using the one under the sofa altogether ?
 
 
P.S. We have never been in contact with ferrets before and these two little
 furries have made our lives even more special !!!!!
 
 
 
 
 
 
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From: Anonymous Poster <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 1994 09:32:46 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Seasonal Update
Submitted-Date: Tue Aug 30 09:56:38 EDT 1994
 
Hi all! Melissa and Potpie here; I haven't posted in a while so I thought
I'd drop a letter to the list.
 
Potpie's already put on most of her winter coat and weight...heehee. What
in the summer is a dark, shadowy, sleek ferret has now become a golden,
portly tube of thick pale fur. She galumphs, hee. Question: is it normal
for ferrets to scratch more when they're growing in new seasonal coats?
 
Another question: this fall we're moving to a house with three other
people in it. Aside from the obvious concerns of having a new bunch of
people to teach how to care for her, one of them's got a young (3yrs)
cat who Potpie's met before, but unwillingly. ie:
  cat: OH MY GOD, it's SMALL and FURRY and moves of its OWN VOLITION.
  potpie: *flee*
  cat: *chase*
It looks like something out of a Tom n Jerry cartoon. :) So, I need a
good way to introduce them successfully. The bedrooms (and hence Potpie's
domain) are all going to be upstairs, and some creative suggestions as to
how to manage to keep everyone's rooms ferret-proof while also keeping
the slinky from going downstairs would be helpful.
 
me: I hope you don't mind me putting this huge piece of pegboard across
the stairwell so that every time you go up and down stairs, you have to
step over it. And dont step on the ferret when you do, either.
everyone else: you're evicted.
 
As it is now, if it will fit, her cage is going _in the closet_. No,
really, it's a great idea, especially since i can just leave the door
open until I want to go to sleep, at which point I can shut it. No
scrabbly ferret noises in the deep of night! No clanging or banging
sounds dragging me out of a sound sleep!
 
Potpie,
aka 'Nit for Brains'
and Melissa,
aka 'AAA GET IT OFFA ME'
 
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      Melissa Litwicki         "It's big, sharp teeth and claws versus
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[Posted in FML issue 0936]