Frequent bedding changes does the trick best for us. The bedding definately smells worse than they do. Our guys just smell like corn chips, until a few weeks ago when I bought some tide with downy on sale and tried it. Now they smell like sweet tide with downy corn chips! We generaly only bathe our guys with plain old regular people shampoo when they have gotten into something funky. That breaks down into roughly 3-4 baths a year, depending, wahahaha....otherwise they really start stinking from being bathed too often because their little musky oil glands work overtime. No really, I've seen Izzy after many a bath and accompanying IM WET! EEEWWWWWW!!!!!!! GET IT OF GETITOFF GETITOFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! dance sit in one spot *pretending* to shake and shiver, but what he's really doing is making a concerted effort to squeeze/sweat out his stinky musk-oil....I've not bothered to tell him that he can't sweat. I simply let him think that we are dumb to his little evil ploy as he sits there with his eyes squeezed tightly shut and his little face scrunched up in concentration, begging the powers of naughtyness to grant him just one good poof of vengeance. Several years ago, when they were given to us 3 of ours came with deoderizing products and ferret cologne (in the scent of CK be) like Alex said, allthey did was make the poor kids smell like nasty little synthetic chemical refineries. We pitched everything in the garbage...heheheheh, except for the ferret cologne which I would occasionaly (as in once maybe every 4-5 months) give in about 1/4 squirt on a victim's rump during playtime because the reaction was so funny. A game of ambush tag would ensue with much dooking,wrestling, and chasing of the poor funny smelling "victim". It didn't matter if it was a ferret, a cat, or the dog. Whoever had the perfumed hiney would be pounced. The same works with catnip spray. They seem to love the minty scent but only if it is on somebody's butt. If I put it on a toy they just aren't interested at all. The catnip smell is gone in an hour or so, which is nice because it doesn't linger. If you change their bedding weekly and scoop poop every day or two, you will notice a big difference. A little carpet fresh or febreeze (my favorite) once a week or so will freshen up the ferret room and rest of the house as well. (If you just like to use stuff that smells good that is!) Dooks and Hugs! Yvonne [Posted in FML 5420]