Hello FML -- Perhaps like me some of you have ferrets and other animals sharing living space and want to keep the other animals away from the ferrets' food. Here's how I have solved the problem: We use a box with wire-mesh sides, a hinged lid, and holes on each end for the ferrets to use to get in and out of the box. We lift the lid to put the food inside. Actually I had two boxes made -- one for the outdoor pen and one for up in my bathroom. Some of the more persistent cats used to jump into the outdoor pen through holes in the center of the roof in order to get at the fertie food. Then they were either stuck inside the pen until someone let them out -- OR they crawled up the ferret tunnel that zigzags up the outside of the house and then they came out the other end onto my balcony! Only one still does that from time to time, but a couple get onto the TOP of the tunnel without going into the pen and walk up the tunnel to the veranda and jump over the veranda railing. I had to have one box made 2 times -- the one in my bathroom is only big enough for a couple of ferrets at a time plus a couple of dishes -- one dish has soup and the other has kibble. The first version of that box had mesh that was just big enough for a cat paw to reach through and scoop up the wet food! It was a funny sight, especially when a cat did it while on top of the box. For the second box, the mesh was smaller, but one cat would reach into the box through a ferret door and pull the material that was under the food (PishPad) so as to drag the food close enough to the door that he could scoop the food out. So I put four black binder clips on the corners of the PishPad material -- poking the corners of the material through the mesh at each corner of the cage and fastening the clips to the material corners outside of the mesh. [Posted in FML 6725]