Often in the past they have been mentioned in novels in descriptions of a thief or of someone slippery, but in one Barbara Cleverly's historic mysteries set in colonial India, _The Palace Tiger_, the hero is compared to a ferret on page 57. Go take a look. Sukie (not a vet) Recommended ferret health links: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/ http://ferrethealth.org/archive/ http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/ http://www.ferretcongress.org/ http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html [Posted in FML 5685]