Rusty is also a water-bowl digger. He much prefers the bowl to the bottle we keep available just in case the bowl gets emptied somehow, but I was definitely getting fed up with puddles all over the cage and wet globs of scattered litter wedged into the corners. A good solution for me was to buy a $3 plain plastic litter pan, fairly large, with no cut-downs in the sides, and put just the water bowl in it (no litter). Rusty still happily digs and splashes and gets himself all wet, and the puddles stay confined. -- - Pam Greene in Rochester, NY Ferret Central <http://www.optics.rochester.edu:8080/users/pgreene/> [Posted in FML issue 1523]