Hi all!
 
Responding to previous posts...
Darel and Susan--Beckett recently discovered ping-pong balls, and seems to like
them *a lot*!  She's never been exposed to golf balls, but just loves to push
the ping-pong variety around for hours.  They're great: light enough that she
won't dent or hurt anything (or herself) with them, and big enough that she
can't chew them up.  Hours of ferret fun!
Sergej--I initially had a tough time getting Beckett to "pass out" by way of
scruffing, but have found that if I hold her for a brief while she will calm
down eventually and just hang there.  It makes ear cleaning a *lot* easier.
She will occasionally jerk around a bit, but in my experience the patience
spent waiting for the "passout" pays off in the end; get a fair amount of skin
when you pick your carpet shark up...
 
Ross.
 
[Posted in FML issue 0600]