I've been away 36 hrs and came home to find Cleo compulsively chewing bedding -- She goes into a particular corner and chews whatever she finds there. She was doing it last week, and I thought that I understood why, and I thought she had stopped. In the past, she has chewed when she's lost a cagemate, and only done it for a short time. Jonas has been sick, and I thought that was why Cleo had been chewing. For three nights, almost 2 weeks ago, I kept him in my bedroom so I could more easily do the each-2-hours feedings, so of course she might have thought he was gone. Jonas is acting normal now EXCEPT for some bad tooth grinding -- so of course he is not normal. Do you think that worries Cleo? I doubt that the problem is boredom, given the pattern I've see in her chewing over the years. However, I may have missed something. My other idea is that perhaps both ferrets have GI issues, and I should start Cleo on antibiotics (Jonas is almost through a course of them). Cleo's been getting 2 squeezes of Petromalt @ 12-hr intervals for 50 hours. What are your ideas as to why she might be doing this? What do you think the treatment should be? What shall I used for their bedding???? I have one small towel that is made of some high-tech material that I hear doesn't shred, but that wouldn't be enough. Where they sleep is cool -- the whole place is cool -- no heating. The weather is moderate, so heating isn't needed (nor AC). The way to deal w coolness is bedding. [Posted in FML 7695]