My ferrets have long had a plastic halloween pumpkin with painted face and a strap handle that I keep their small toys in. I set the pumpkin on the kitchen floor and they fish things out. Yesterday I wanted something to entertain the baby angora in the cage, so put the pumpkin in with him. He soon had everything out, and crawled into the cavity. It was like he'd never seen the pumpkin before! He clawed at the inside wildly - probably where the black paint could be seen through the plastic, and rolled around inside it. His cage-mate, Mr. Sobersides got in too, and they played snake-bites. It was great! I'm still seeing plastic pumpkins in the discount bins at stores, and the tag on the bottom says it was only .99 to begin with! Great toy! Thanks Lee, for adding the "keep em dry" note on woodstove pellets. Unlike kitty pellets that are sealed in multiple layer paper bags, the woodstove pellets are a single layer of plastic, and like potato bags, they have little breathing holes, so it's important to protect them from moisture. Storing heavy bags of woodstove pellets IS a problem. We have a lower kitchen cupboard area that's hard to get to, so we put extra bags there. The floor level of linen closets (not that I have one) or the back of the coat closet (are you kidding, mine is 19 inches wide) come to mind as possible stashes. Finding a place to store them is a pain, but it beats the panic of realizing the ferrets will poop on the floor if their litter is different! Georgia [log in to unmask] [Posted in FML issue 2233]