HELP! Here is my story, there is a woman i work w/who's son has already given up 2 ferrets a good year or more ago, because i had/have them. I lost Athena (her given name when she came to me) (I think she just gave up on finding a permanent home, and someone to love her, as she and Hera, (also a given name when they came to live w/me, cause neither had names.) Athena quit eating, and i being a new fert owner myself at the time was at a loss what 2 do, or where to turn, until i found the fml, through the internet, some frantic searching, and some very good people who refered me. FOR THIS I AM FOREVER GRATEFUL! Well to try to make a long story short, this son now has 2 children, a wife AND another ferret! They are trying to litter box train to 100% so the children do not get into the poopies, and what i have heard from MOM, is this "he RUBS HER NOSE IN THE POOPIES ^ THEN PUTS HER IN HER CAGE". PLEASE tell, me! DO ANY OF U AGREE W/THIS KIND OF TRAINING! I am requesting that anyone w/suggestions please email me privately in a manner that i can print and present this to MOM, to pass on to her son, leaving out any comments, other than your suggestions on how u trained your ferret (s) for litter box, INSIDE CAGE ONLY. If u wish to express yourself in any other manner, please make your remarks to the fml, and the sympathetic readers, or a 2nd email to me would work too. I would like to print the letters up and bring them to work, and that is why i am requesting separate emails. MOM, seemed sensitive to the suggestions i had already made, so...it may be a delicate circumstance already? i HAD to send this post, as i am very concerned. I have a ferret collective already, and have heard some local abuse stories, that have ripped me to my soul. I just cannot help but feel in my heart that i "may" have another ferret someday, because she was untrainable, or under other circumstances. I have invested a lot of time and money into providing a loving home for my fuzzies! Most of them were given to me, and i am watching one of them, slowly move from this life into the next, but i am glad that he came to me, Odie and his cage mate Samson. I got to love on Odie for better than a year now, and we are both fighting old age, i w/b 50 this year! I am at the point where i almost dare not go into a pet store, for there are babies there almost all the time, and of course, the ferret math bit me again, i have Prometheus, Romulus and Remus, the same day, and Epimetheus came to me from my loving daughter who told me to rescue not purchase anymore! CAUSE SHE THINKS I HAVE ENOUGH? Eppie, has a curl to his lip, so he is a little odd looking? We don't care! I have specially ordered a rather large cage to the tune of half of my meager savings to provide a good home for them, thank goodness for commission sales sometimes! I am hoping to receive it by next week, as i am already getting new beds and toys for it. Well, i have already gotten off the MAIN subject for this post, but if any of u really do care, please help me to help someones little ferret! Thank you all, i don't post much, lurk more, but enjoy the stories, I hope someday when my daughter gets married and in her own home to convert her bedroom to a room for my babies, till then, they are under supervision for 3-4-5 or more hours a day, depending on who is home and for how long. Once again, thank you all Donna, and her ferret collective [Posted in FML issue 3351]