You know how people have walk-abouts? Well, apparently on the shores in western Ireland doing a search is "having a ferret-about". Here we might "ferret about" with ferret as the verb, but it is very nifty that the verb from the noun is creating a new noun, and it gives me an excuse to use the word "nifty" which makes me grin. Sukie (not a vet) Recommended ferret health links: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/ http://ferrethealth.org/archive/ 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 "All hail the procrastinators for they shall rule the world tomorrow." (2010, Steve Crandall) [Posted in FML 7425]