I too have made the switch from litter to newspaper. My three produce so much poop that I felt like I was constantly cleaning boxes. Now I just put a section of the newspaper in each of their corners and replace it once a day. I get the sunday paper every week anyways, now when I'm done reading it I have a weeks worth of ferret potties. Eating photos... this topic is a week old I guess but I've had to do some catching up. All photo chemistry is toxic, residual chemicals in the print could possibly make a ferret ill. The light sensitive chemicals in the emulsion are toxic too. The base paper of commercially developed prints is polyester so I don't think that would be very digestible either, could cause blockages. I have a whole cabinet full of photo chemistry I was cleaning out today. I left to go to the bathroom and returned to find a ferret inside the trashcan licking a container that once held liquid emulsion, the light sensitive ingrediant is silver nitrate which causes chemical burns when you spill it on your skin- who knows what happens when you ingest it. I don't know whether she swallowed any or not but after having her mouth washed out, pepto bismol and copious amounts of milk forced down her, she's probably regretting her actions (has the squirts right now). Keeping cats and dogs out of ferret food... I find that it is harder keeping ferrets out of the cat and dog food. My cat and ferrets now subsist on the same diet for this reason, Iams kitten and Proplan turkey barley. The food dish is under a low piece of furniture to keep the dog out of it. This works well if the dog is a fairly large one. You could also try putting the bowl under some thing that has ferret sized access holes- a laundry basket, one of those plastic crates- or leave the food dish in the cage in a spot where a larger animal can't reach it. Kim (evry night I put my shoes in the closet, every morning I pull them from behind the couch) [Posted in FML issue 1637]