Hi to everyone on the F.M.L. Me and my limited knowledge thought we would hitch a ride on the litter train. The choice of my furies-UNTREATED woodstove pellets. I can't really be the judge of other forms of litter as I haven't tried any, except cat litter for a short time, it stuck occasionally to my furies but and he was not impressed. The woodstove pellets break down when used and cleaning out the poopie only requires a small kids shovel. Just thought I'd throw in an alternative if anyone wanted to test it out. On the most embarrassing post-two years ago while at our annual ferret frolic a photographer from one of city papers came out and took a bunch of pics of furies and their humans. This is cool I thought. So I took the liberty of jumping into a few with Buddy Bunchkin thinking I would ask the photographer for a few color pictures of Buddy and I from the negatives. I learned the next day we got more then we bargained for, for on page 2 of the Sunday paper was a large photo of Buddy, playing in my, head poking out the top, with a caption that read,"Kathy M. SQUEALS as her two year old ferret Buddy plays in her shirt." Needless to say everyone at work saw this and the teasing went on for two weeks. Today I'm glad for the photo as Buddy has crossed over the Rainbow Bridge and looking at it brings back happy memories. I do believe Buddy is right now happily weasel-war-dancing with grandpa who loved giving Buddy a wet kiss on the nose every time we went to visit. Glad to here (Gentle) Ben is through surgery! We all hope to see a ferret speedy recovery. Kathy and 7 sneaky Monkies [Posted in FML issue 2944]