A while ago, I asked about a reference on the FML -- A Tao Full of Detours. A few people were kind enough to inform me that they are ONLY available via www.ferretware.com. My copy just came on thursday (along with 2 lovely necklaces - 1 for me & 1 for a friend's birthday, a really cute ferret puppet for my brother's b-day, cheweasels for the kid, a print & t-shirt titled "you can never have too many ferrets" that I think every multi ferret household should have ... If you haven't been there, go take a look, they have the most original stuff and the service was terrific!!). Anyways, I finished reading it last night, and it was amazing! It's on the behaviour of ferrets, with a lot of references to backup the research, the author was totally clear on what was her own observations and what was from references, and the experiments she did ... I was laughing throughout the whole book. While it isn't informative on care of ferrets, it did give a lot of information about why ferrets are the way they are, along with some unsolved mysteries. For example, with regard to the few posts these couple of days about ferrets that attacked unprovoked, Fara Shimbo (author) observed that it is usually 3 reasons, the person attacked smoked, use perfume, or deorderant that the ferret didn't like. Well, just wanted to rave about it. Showed it to my vet on friday (she has heard of Fara Shimbo - who is this lady? is she going to write more stuff like that? Is there more books/papers like that? is the FURO ministry still around?) and she's planning to get a copy as well. Get a copy & have fun reading! // *********************************************** // Selina, Birch, Dief, Sprite, Storm, Sand & Bear // http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~ssiu [Posted in FML issue 2988]