I've had ferrets who dragged their bedding into the litterpans to sleep - currently there are three "litter-pan kids" in residence. I figured that even though ferrets are totally domesticated, some of the instincts of their wild cousins pop up here and there - for instance, the "denning" instinct seems to be a little stronger in some of them (notice how they like to sleep inside and underneath stuff?) And I noticed that the "litter-pan kids" liked to sleep with their backs up against the wall of the pan. What I did was scour the house for things that could provide a solid-walled "den" inside the cage. One little girl wound up with a round clay pot, just her size; another got a small box with a ferret-sized hole cut in one end. The third has an eight-inch length of 6" diameter tubing. I left the pans just a wee bit dirtier than usual for a couple days, and tucked nice, clean, fluffy bedding inside the new "dens." Not one of them has gone back to sleeping in the litterpans. :-) -Carla (no, the other one <g>) [Posted in FML issue 3558]