I thought that I was the only one with the babies thinking that the litterbox was either a bed and/or a toy. This has escalated this year since we started using the wood pellets as litter. I love the wood pellets, the absorb the liquid and the order and the pieces are easy to sweep up. But dog gone it, do the kids like to play in it! This problem has been really bad with the kits. We generally start mom and the babies in a small cage, when the babies get to be around 3.5 to 4 weeks old and are crawling well, we move them to a larger cage. Since they still don't have their eyes open we put boxes in every corner. As they chose which corner they want to use for the bathroom, we remove the extra boxes, giving them some extra room. We have not been able to leave less then two boxes will any litter of kits this year. They adopt one box as their bed and play pen and use the other for its intended use. If we leave only one box in the cage, they use it as a bed and poop in the corner! (What priorities!) I was really worried about Xanth, one of our jills, she started using a box for a bed and was nursing in it. This when she was still in her small cage and was using the box for its intended use! I was sure she was going to get mastitis. Lucky for all of us, she didn't, and her kits will be six weeks old Sunday. (And they are sooo cute, 8 chocolate silver mitts, 3 boys and 5 girls!!) [Posted in FML issue 1268]