It amazes me how many discoveries that should have been obvious are made accidentally. Sukie was brushing her teeth with our new Braun electric toothbrush while Meeteesze was begging for attention. One thing led to another and M. was soon running her neck agaist the softly vibrating toothbrush body. She *loved* the feeling and would ask for more when the toothbrush was turned off. We tried it on the other ferrets -- ALL of them love it, but in different places. Meltdown likes to run her hands against the body, Ruffle (our ferret with back problems who needs daily massages to prevent muscle spasms) loves it on her back, Chopper is a neck ferret and Spot -- well Spot is our male. Devoting a toothbush to such purposes would be silly and expensive, so we bought a small Hitachi "mini massager HV-1" vibrator (available in discount chains -- these are not units explicitly designed for human x rated activities, although there is probably some overlap :-). Now we have ferrets who beg for nutrical, raisins, and the vibrator :-) buzzing along Steve Sukie Meltdown Chopper Meeteesze Spot and Ruffle [Posted in FML issue 0638]