A couple of days ago, someone posted about scattering the contents of litter trays outside the house to serve as a beacon for wandering ferrets, and as fertilizer. I have also heard that this practice might repel rodents of European extraction (eg. Norwegian rat). My question is, how safe is ferret poop as a fertilizer on food crops? I labor under ancestral prohibitions against carnivore (dog, cat) scat in food gardens, presumably because of worms or other carnivoric diseases. Or is it because, as with any kind of poop, applying it fresh will burn the vegetation? In either case, composting should take care of the problem, yes? Any thoughts, Edenic FMLers? -- Lee, who has got to get herself/back to the garden. PS. Francine hit another vein of kibble down the street, but now we suspect that crows have something to do with it. They must steal the kibble fruit from wherever they do grow wild, and then drop these kibble seeds to take root in the neighborhood lawns. Definitely a fertile avenue for further research. [Posted in FML issue 1519]