We just contracted to build a house in the Tampa area, which mean a big more for us and our ferrets since we are now in Puerto Rico. Our house here is completely tiles, so I've never had pooping on the carpet problems. When talking to the builder, they brought out there beautiful upgraded carpet color charts and I just laughed. Tile on all my floors please. Though it's quite a big of an expense, it will over ride all the tension about dirty carpets. Just a little bit of newspaper or paper towel in their favorite corners and whalaa, all cleaned up. If they miss, it's just on the tile and wipes up real easily. We survived the Petsburgh Critique www.geocities.com/Petsburgh/Zoo/3133 http://communities.msn.com/Ferret [Posted in FML issue 2880]