>Anyways, I have been wanting to make a digging box for my girls so they
>can dig and be obnoxious in a safe and house-damaging free way.  My main
>question is about what I should use in the box.... I have also heard of
>using rice and I like that idea, and I'll sound really stupid for asking
>this, but is it possible to by like a really big bag of rice instead of
>tons of little boxes?  I have never paid attention at the grocery store.
 
Yes, rice is available in enormous bags on the bottom shelves at the
supermarket.  I would caution you however to make sure the ferrets won't
eat the rice; a stomach full of dried rice will swell with water to
potentially fatal proportions.  This is why it's illegal in the US to
throw rice at weddings anymore; there were apparantly too many cases of
bird fatalities over the years.
 
[Moderator's note: Rice is safe.  Urban Legend alert:
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/r/riceatweddings.htm
http://www.snopes.com/weddings/horrors/birdrice.htm         BIG]
[Posted in FML issue 4570]