I agree: Spending more time with your ferrets helps them remember to poop where they should. I can't figure it out. When I am home, I do not spend my time chasing after them monitoring where they poop and yet they always poop where they are supposed to. However, if I leave the house for an extended amount of time (long day at work or overnight), there is poop everywhere when I return. We have found newspaper to work the best. We have one section of the newspaper lying flat in the corner on the floor of their cage and then also a newspaper section lying on the floor next to each of 4 catboxes around the house. They almost always use the newspaper and then you can just pick it up in the morning and at the end of the day, and replace them with fresh newspaper sections. (We subscribe to the paper just for this reason!) [Posted in FML issue 1249]