Secure your cupboard doors with the latches used to keep toddlers out. You should be able to find these in the baby section of the grocery store. They are flexible plastic pieces a couple of inches long shaped into a hook on the end. You screw these to the inside of the cupboard door, push down on the piece, close the door a little, let up on the piece, and the hook will snap into place on the inside of the cupboard wall just above the door hole. Is this clear at all? A good game-- Take at least one ferret; add one golf ball; place into empty bathtub; roll ball around until ferret gets the idea. Georgie will roll the ball around the bathtub for up to half an hour with necessity breaks. The great thing about this is that the ball is pretty noisy in the tub so you can monitor the fuzzy without standing right there. When the noise stops, go pull fuzzy out of garbage can, laundry basket, or other favorite spot. Lorali J Barber Editorial Assistant 301-530-7038 Fax 301-571-8303 [log in to unmask] http://www.faseb.org/ajcn [Posted in FML issue 1740]