Hi all, I know this topic was done about two weeks ago, but I confess that I'm 2 weeks behind in the FML (and slowly increasing - you know how it is). Ahh well. My first ferret sighting (apart from the television where I just didn't notice) was almost exactly a year ago. I'd returned from the Christmas break and had been retrenched (which was expected, I suppose, just not that quickly) and was "down" in mood but "up" in money. I was living near Bronte in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs in a house with 2 Siamese cats owned by my flatmate. I was walking down the street one day and saw a pet store called "Bizarre Pets". I've always been an animal person and I confess I was intrigued. The shop was full of kids on holidays and one of them was holding a squirming white wriggly thing. They told me it was a ferret. I picked her up - one of the boys there had named her Tabitha - and she promptly bit me on the nose. I guess you could say it was love at first bite :-) I spent about 1/2 hour in the pet shop reading every bit of literature the lady had, and walked out with her, a cage and very little knowledge. A month later I got Endora from the same pet store (I didn't know there were shelters) and we're still going strong. Tabitha is still inclined to bite strangers, but not me thankfully ! Dora is much less inclined and is a little cuddly rascal. I got her younger and I handled her a lot from the beginning. I love my ferrets, I don't know what I'll do when they (eventually) go, and I wouldn't give them up for anything. I guess that's it from me, Georgina Tabitha ("One bite and you were hooked") and Dora ("I'm sickly sweet") in Sydney Australia (where it's currently BOILING hot). [Posted in FML issue 2934]