I am trying something new (for me) and it is working. The kitchen is the ferret room these days. Over the past month, I have found that lying sheets down around the edges of the room (anchoring the edges under stuff) and putting the litter and food containers on the sheets helps. I double the sheets lengthwise. The fers love to tunnel in them too, They also use them rather than the floor to wipe their little butts. You've got to be careful navigating the floor, of course -- not only are sheets on vinyl slippery, but you have to watch out for little lumps of ferts in folds. The sheets are a tactic that followed putting mutiple litter boxes around the room and then putting multiple food containers -- I suppose I have abt 10 now.... but hey only 4 litter boxes. Plus I learned that the gang (of 7) is most likely to ignore their litter boxes if, after waking up, the boxes have old poop and pee in them. My most recent tactic, though, is to lightly sprinkle kibble all over the floor. Not one accident so far. They do not ike the kibble spread about though, and eat it up so I have to refresh it fr time to time. What did you say bout the usual use of a kitchen? Oh well, first things first. You say that it wd be less work to clean up the poo than to do all this prevention? Well, yes, but, well, um, shall we say Each to ther own appraoches to life and housework? [Posted in FML issue 5178]