Has anyone thought of making up some covered litter pans? I don't mean those silly expensive things from the store either! (I've seen a few designed for ferrets) Years ago I saw an article about a travel litter box for ferrets and its worked perfectly for me. I used to wedge it in a space in the back of my SUV, for my ferrets. Later when I had ferret with a problem of throwing out litter I used the box inside the cage as well. No more thrown litter and no more pooping over the side! I forget the name of the magazine, but the idea was to take two deep plastic shoeboxes (or roughly shoe length plastic storage boxes), cut a ferret sized hole in the top, or side, top is better, then "clip" the two boxes together, using the black binder clips. Most of the boxes today have a pretty stiff rolled lip, using the smaller clips means no cutting on those boxes. Then when you see a ferret going potty (elsewhere) to introduce them to the box, you just slide them in head first and put your hand over the hole till they do their duty. I haven't had problem pooper in a while, but now that I remember the mess free litterbox, I'm tempted to run out and buy more plastic boxes and binder clips! Good luck guys! Sharon [Posted in FML issue 3424]