The latest best toy for Felix is now a bag of basmati rice. After some deliberation I finally decided that I should build a rice box for matey boy to play in. So off I toddled to the local Indian supermarket and bought a large sack of rice. Now having bought this there was the obvious concern that he would either ignore it or pooh in it, not as daft as it seems after all it did take a while to convince him that the litter tray was for poohing and not sleeping in :-) Anyway the best!!! (if there is such a thing with ferrets involved) plan of action seemed to be to put some rice into a smaller tray and see if he liked it, if he didn't then I knew what I'd be living on for the next six months, if he did, great. So rice meets seed tray, ferret meets seed tray plus rice, swiftly followed by rice being scattered to all four corners of the room which I kinda took as a success. It was quite amusing to watch him snorkeling along with his head buried and then watch as he hit the corner, up popped the head and out went more rice followed by even more as he tried to dig up the corner. So based on this a whole load of rice was dumped in a large plastic box, ferret quickly following, he climbed in rather than being dumped :-). He went mad rolling around and digging and snorkeling, the only problem is that the box needs to be a bit bigger, so that he can get a good long snorkel going. From reading various posts it does seem that it is a good idea to restict his time in there to prevent any problems with his skin drying out. So the question is how long do people generally allow the wee fuzzies in the rice box. Tony and Felix http://homepages.tesco.net/~anthony.clark [Posted in FML issue 2939]