outlawdook <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >I'm going to assume, like the rest of fert owned humans, 60%-80% litter >pan hit is about as accurate as you can get Wrong. >In order to have a 99%-100% hit, the litter box is either attached to it's >ass, it wears a diaper or a paper towel is close behind waiting to catch >the miss. Wrong again. I wouldn't even be satisfied with a 99% litter trainedness. For five ferrets, five times a day or so, that would mean one would have to clean up ouside the boxes more than once per week -- and I can tell you I certainly didn't have to, first time around I had five! Once or twice per month was the usual, but at times there were more than four weeks between misses. When Rustan and Carmen, at eight-nine weeks of age, came to me, Alison and Natasja, it took one whole week before *any* of the four missed the litter boxes, three boxes in a two room apartment (of course no cage). R+C were trained exclusively by their mother. No, it's not that way now, I think mostly because they don't get along very well, so I've actually got newspapers in three corners as well, at least one which has to be replaced twice a day. We'll see if things will get better after Constellation arrives in August. (Photo of her, and siblings, at age three weeks: <http://welcome.to/ferretsarefineart/>. Text in Swedish.) -- Urban Fredriksson [log in to unmask] http://www.canit.se/%7Egriffon/ferrets/ [Posted in FML issue 2749]