>Anyways, I have been wanting to make a digging box for my girls so they >can dig and be obnoxious in a safe and house-damaging free way. My main >question is about what I should use in the box.... I have also heard of >using rice and I like that idea, and I'll sound really stupid for asking >this, but is it possible to by like a really big bag of rice instead of >tons of little boxes? I have never paid attention at the grocery store. Yes, rice is available in enormous bags on the bottom shelves at the supermarket. I would caution you however to make sure the ferrets won't eat the rice; a stomach full of dried rice will swell with water to potentially fatal proportions. This is why it's illegal in the US to throw rice at weddings anymore; there were apparantly too many cases of bird fatalities over the years. [Moderator's note: Rice is safe. Urban Legend alert: http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/r/riceatweddings.htm http://www.snopes.com/weddings/horrors/birdrice.htm BIG] [Posted in FML issue 4570]