I have been waiting eagerly for someone to reply on litter box training for several days now. The writer sounded concerned and rather desperate. God is laughing for me responding to this one, but this is what I do: First:All my guys but Wolf go in cages at night. In the morning, my radio goes off and plays rather loud music. I turn on the lights, remove the blankets over the cages, and nudge the deaf guys awake, and turn on the heat for about 20 minutes. Then I rearrange their toys, boxes, blankets, slide, tent, rolled carpets and tubes in the family room every morning so they will be greeted with a whole new play area, eat my breakfast, fix and heat up their formula, turn off the heat, and THEN I let them out. Now they have had noise, light, warmth,my voice, and the smell of breakfast to wake them up, and time for all of them to poop in their litter box. I now have 2 1/2 to 3 hours before they poop again. By then, they are back in their cages and I am off to work.Yes, it means waking up 3 hours before I leave for work. But I didn't get these guys just so I could ignore them. We spend at least an hour together playing every morning. They continue playing while I clean cages and syringe feed the sickies. Secondly, I know that when i see green slime poops, black tar, or bloody poops--THIS is not the time to think about getting a second smaller cage so I can isolate the sick guy.Time is critical when you see these poops. Get a small cage now. Each fert gets a turn in it. It is only big enough for litter, food and water, and place to sleep. They never poop on their bedding. If fert is sick, he won't flip out going in a strange small cage. And bathroom manners are reinforced.!!! I let other ferts out of big cages first. Many times they run over to small cage and try to all pile in to get fert in there before running into family room together. At night, I make noise, get my dinner, remove their blankets over cages: same thing I do in morning. If 20 minutes is not enough, wait 30. I get piled with poop when I feel sorry for them and let them out all day. The longer I let mine out, the worse their litter manners are. My first three were trained consistently and well. But after they had green slime for six months, and then when I brought home other unfortunates: the habits got worse and worse. It only takes one trouble maker to lead the others astray. I would start doing these things before the baby comes, so ferts won't blame changes on baby and get jealous.[Writer was going to have a baby.] And I clean out all my litter boxes twice a day. I have 17. All pans are emptied totally and disinfected at least once every 10 days.No self respecting fert wants to poop in a stinky box.[Especially when they can poop right in front of it.] You can stop laughing now God. I'm done, Lisette [Posted in FML issue 2674]