Gosh, I don’t know what to do for rioting buns………camomile??

Can you try secure the boxes from the top down? Like put a piece of dowel down thru the top of the cage and seat it in diagonal corners of the box. Then place something over the top of the dowel so it can’t be pushed upwards. Actually, even putting dowel thru the sides so that they lay along each end of the box would work better.  Still, if that worked you still have to provide alternative entertainment/ or protest aids.

…little tin cups…LOL!

And here I was just thinking it might be OK to untie Sammy’s litter pan because it’s so hard to clean when I can’t move it around. (I use a cat litter scoop. Over and over and over again. She supervises.)

If your pans are plastic and they have any bars on their houses, (I don’t think you’ve posted pix of the prisons in a while. Can’t picture ’em.) you could poke a hole about the size of a screwdriver, or two, on one side of the litter pan, then loop a tie that’s used to hold NIC cubes through and around a cage bar. If you twist it diagonally above and below a cage cross piece, it can’t slide far. If I’m not explaining well, I’ll post a pix.

Sometimes I wonder if two strips of velcro on the bottom of the pan/cage floor would work. Not the little dots, but the wide ones you can cut to any length. My only concern would be if the buns could still lift it off, and then nibble the strips. But if it worked, you’d be strong enough to separate it for cleaning, but the buns wouldn’t.

It could be something as simple as using twist ties instead of zip ties. So you untwist, pull out pan, and retwist into place again when finished.

When I went on holidays I had an extra container for hay in the cage for the buns, but Noelle liked to tip it. So I put a zip tie around the handles, then used one of those carabiner clips (that come on like, water bottles and stuff to hook onto things) to attach it to the cage. Made it real easy to remove to refill without going through a million zipties. I think I stole the idea from a picture Beka posted of her hay setup. But that could be another potential solution. Of course, Wally eventually chewed through the zip ties, but it took him a while. 🙂

Hmm…I just reread your post a bit closer, and apparently noise is a factor…so that would probably rule out the carabiners…oh well. Sorry!

In order to get holes in plastic without damaging structure 

I put a nail on the stove burner and put it ti high heat and wait a bit.  When it is real hot I grab a plier to pick the nail up otherwise you will get burned fingers.  I take it to the plastic I want to put the hole in and it goes right through.

No I didn’t have any hanging chads.  I put the nail from inside and it went through made the hold and poked out the outside of the cage.  If has rough edges they will be on the outside of the cage.  I didn’t notice any sticking out or anything though. 

I think the drill would make it smell more.  You can do it outside or leave the door open.  I really didn’t get a smell from it.

Only time I got a smell was with using a knife to cut a plastic shelf for Cotton to put in his cage.  The nail holes are so small they shouldn’t smell.

The plastic was big so I got a big smell and had left the door open and windows too.  good luck.

OH I used string to tie down the litterbox.  i used big big zip ties for the shelf.  I hope your naughty girl doesn’t chew thru those very quickly.