If anyone is interested, I have a wave file that has a ferret dooking on it. I have no idea where I got it, just know I downloaded it a long time ago so my mother could hear the sound they make. Then of course mine started doing that, maybe in response to the sound blaring from the computer, who knows! Email me if you want me to send it to you.... My Tao thing is: Why do ferrets make a mess and we say, "ah, cute," but with our kids, it's "ARGH!"? It's like the old saying, the higher they rise, the harder they fall, kind of. The smaller they are, the cuter the mess. When my daughter was little, the mess was much cuter than now that she's older. Since ferrets are so little, well, anything they do is just gonna be too cute! (besides, it's not like you can really tell them to clean up and they will.....not like you can tell your kids that either, come to think of it!) debbi, Molly Doll, and Merlin (whose favorite pastime has become to steal my daughter's little plastic dollhouse toys and run off, with my daughter wailing in hot pursuit....to add to the insult, he stashes everything under her bureau, just out of reach of her short arms. How do they know!) [Posted in FML issue 2949]