Debbie sent: >Oh, I bet that this will be in the FML about a dozen times today, but >I had to share.... Apparently, Pandora's box was filled with ferrets! > <http://icanhascheezburger.com/2009/11/14/funny-pictures-pandoras-box/> Remember that when she closed it the one thing remaining inside was HOPE. (Perhaps a good name if a shelter ever gets a ferret who was dumped in a box.) Pandora means gift giver and in some versions she is the first female. (If the trouble causing version reminds you of the story of Eve, there are a lot of similarities in a great many of the stories of many religions. In some versions she releases good things, but setting her up to not be able to resist opening the amphora is a more interesting story.) To learn more see: http://gogreece.about.com/od/mythology/a/mythopandora.htm http://www.pantheon.org/articles/p/pandora.html <http://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/The_Myths/Creation_of_Man_by_Prometheus/creation_of_man_by_prometheus.html> 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/ http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/ http://www.ferretcongress.org/ http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html all ferret topics: http://listserv.ferretmailinglist.org/archives/ferret-search.html [Posted in FML 6518]