Ours is a pretty simple reason why our ferrets have *odd* names. I have been a major fan of Greek Mythology since 1977, and my husband is fasinated by it as well. Also, well... we both have bizarre senses of humor, take all of this into consideration, we are of course, big fans of the Xena and Hercules shows. I had ferrets in Florida for many years but then in 1995 we moved to Tulsa where ferrets were illegal so I had to give them up, in 1997 the city made ferrets legal and I quickly started searching for a breeder. We ended up choosing a pair of males, a cinnamon who was *my* baby and a chocolate who was *his* baby. The cinnamon is a trickster with a mischeivous but charming attitude, the chocolate a joker, clown, a little bit of a klutz but adorable. Bryan wanted to name them Autolycus and Joxer, after his favorite charachters on the shows... my first response was "I am NOT naming my ferret after The King Of Thieves.... OH NO! Wait!! It Fits!!!" A ferret IS a great thief after all!! So, that became their names... nicknamed Toly and Joxer Somehow, when we decided to get more, I got this bright idea it would be a cool idea to name all our fuzzies from Greek mythology and keep a theme going. But I was also picky that the name had to match the fuzzy, be it his looks, or personality or attitude or what have you... so the namefinding has been a lot of fun over the past 3 years. The only name we *took* from the TV shows that is not found in true Greek Myth is Joxer, but we let that one slide because there honestly is no other name for this ferret... he IS a Joxer. *Hehehehe* Good examples of the names fitting is Ares (The God Of War), who is my big black DemiGigas bloodline boy, who looks like a biker ferret and is a classic Bully Boy. And Queen Cassiopeia (a beautiful but vain queen) who is a true Princess who knows she is special and beutiful and demands to be treated accordingly. Susan, Bryan and the Greek Hordes Autolycus, Joxer, Apollo, Ares, Orion, Adonis, Phineus, Queen Cassiopiea, Chaos, Eileithyia, Athena, Momus, Selene, Nyx & Danae And In Loving Memory To: Eris, Callidora and Aphrodite. [Posted in FML issue 2946]