Hello everyone. My 8 ferrets and I live in the north east part of Massachusetts so we got hit pretty hard with this blizzard you may have heard about. Last year I had taken my fur kids outside 2 at a time for under 10 minutes each in the snow. Some had a blast burrowing and digging up the snow. Others totally disliked the whole experience. Well right now the snow is well past my waist in our yard due to snowdrifts so it is not possible to bring my furkids out there. Then it hit me! I took the pan from a giant enclosed litter box (brand new) and filled it 3/4 with nice clean snow. I placed a vinyl tablecloth on my rug, put the pan full of snow in the middle and VOILA! Loads of fun. You should have seen their cute wittle faces. A few jumped in right away and started burrowing. They had a blast. Tater (the biggest brat of the whole bunch *said with love*) avoided it and just looked on. So of course me being the evil mama I am kept putting him in it. Finally he started to play in it but it was so funny because he didn't want his back paws to get cold or wet so he kept flipping into these weird postions so they didn't touch the snow. Eventually he gave in and burrowed. Princess had absolutly nothing to do with it. I tried to put her in a few times and every time she hopped out right away. Most of them pooped and piddled in it. Easy enough to just scoop that part out. Bubbie was the only one who ate the snow (the clean snow LOL!). Basil sure can kick up that snow. He made such a wonderful mess of it. Their noses got all cute and red from the cold of the snow. They had access to hop in and out as they pleased. You bet they were right back in it each time their paws thawed out. So I pass this on in hopes that those of you who can treat your fuzzies to this experience do. ;) ~Susie and Brood~ 8 ferrets, 28 rats, 4 mice and 2 cats [Moderator's note: I always delete the advertising which gets added automatically as a footnote by some e-mail services. But this one, in view of the above post, was just too funny a combination to not leave it in! :-) BIG] _________________________________________________________________ Winterize your home with tips from MSN House & Home. http://special.msn.com/home/warmhome.armx [Posted in FML issue 4357]