Our sweet little ferret,Gillian, is a holy terror at the food dish. She digs the food out of the dish, takes a piece out of the dish, and runs up stairs to eat it. We have a paper plate under the cage to recycle the food but we really want to teach her not to do it. We rigged up a can with pennies in it and dropped it next to the cage when she would start doing it. Well that lasted about a week and she got used to it. We don't know of anything else to cease this annoying habit. PLEASE HELP!!! [Posted in FML issue 2750]