I haven't had the experience of doing kitty odors.... they are different and more difficult than ferret odors. Here is a site with some tips that may help with the ferrets and their cage. http://www.geocities.com/wolfysluv/smell.html Wolfy's Wondifferous World of Weasels...Ferrets, that is!! as far as the carpet I got great suggestions: I know one thing...we had inspection and we ran out to the nearest groc store (or eckards, etc) and rented a steam machine for like 18 dollars. We bought lots a huge jugs of natures miracle from petsmart and used it in the steam machine (with the steam cleaner you put in it). You need at least a gallon of natures miracle or more and that can be expensive. If it's too expensive for you, just buy the deoderizers that go into the steam machine and use it liberously! OK then after you do that and the carpet dries for 24 hours... get arm and hamors pet carpet deoderizer at the supermarket.... and sprinkle your carpet the night before the inspection or as close to it as possible. That stuff REALLY works (but only for a couple days).... and is safe for the animals (though I would not let them on it while its on the rug). You need to let the stuff sit on the carpet OVERNIGHT and then vacuum for it to work. good luck Wolfy Please visit: http://www.geocities.com/wolfysluv/ for information on ferret deafness: http://www.geocities.com/wolfysluv [Posted in FML issue 3239]