Hello everyone, I just found this while surfing the net.... On a web page called "Deb and Jen's Land O' Useless Facts" <http://www-leland.stanford.edu/%7Ejenkg/useless.html> -The pet ferret (Mustela putorias furo) was domesticated more than 500 years before the house cat. -=- Truly, Liz http://www.norlink.net/~state/liz.html [Posted in FML issue 1874]