I think I've found the floor care machine of my dreams! Sweeping ferret floors is so time consuming - bring the broom forward, the ferrets dispurse what you just moved. Move the broom outward and you whack a ferret in the fangs with the plastic shield. Using the dustpan, well that is a joke, isn't it? Sweep the dirt in and a ferret sweeps it back out. And sometimes sits down in the pan! And while I truly enjoy laughing while I sweep, sometimes I just don't have time to spend a half hour sweeping one small room. And vaccuming every day means there are 7 ferrets trying to either get their whiskers sucked off or bite the cord - and some of them try both! Enter Bissell! They make a cordless little vacume cleaner, larger than a dust buster and with a long handle, and a head like a regular upright vacume. It's called a GoVac, and its re-charge unit has to set on the floor - unlike an electric broom where your re-charger is wall mounted. That is the one downside - it has to be stored out of the ferret area. There is enough power to pick up all the food crumbs, but it's not so noisy that ferrets are doing sommersaults in the air with excitement. The GoVac doesn't have a 'bag', the debris goes into a transparant cannister that's part of the vacume head. Kouri has given the GoVac his product endorsement, and has sent in his warranty registration card! Georgia [Posted in FML issue 3305]