Never thought of the lip on the mesh awesome idea ill do that tomorrow when I finish the varnishing. I think ill keep the shredded paper as its free and keep the wood shavings because its so cheap £7.00 for a massive bale of it lasts months with 4 ferrets
my cuzn uses liquid paraffin on his ferret to keep the ticks off he just gets a rag sacks it with liquid paraffin then rubs the ferrets coat down with it and hasn't had a tick in ages. He sais when he did have them he put it on and they just dropped straight off.