Hello, My name is Ric. I have watched my ferrets in there time-out cage ,and just recently noticed the ranking system used by our ferrets. On the outside where ferrets run wild, and free. The newest member of the ferret household gets attacked quite often. I discovered that when placed into the time out cage the the ranking system changes. The first one to enter becomes the head honcho. I watched as the newest member of the ferrets was doing time ,and another ferret joined the cage for his time out. The first one in the cage seems to be the boss. None of our ferrets would mess with the newest ferret while in the cage. They would not even lay next to him on the shelf. As the ferrets get released the next one in line becomes the boss. On the out side it is totally different world. I found this to be very interesting. Ric [Posted in FML issue 2945]