Howdy y'all, hope everyone's doin' fine out there! I think that the reason that children's faces are the target area in some cases of ferret attacks is how they smell. The majority of stories deal with kids under five years old. Think about how most kids that young smell. The ones I've dealt with smell like milk or some other yummy scent is on their faces from snacks, the bottle or cup. Ferrets have a great sense of smell heck, Booger can sniff out a raisin from across the room. My fingers have been mistaken for raisins on more than one occasion. Now if I were a ferret that goes bonkers for human food then I might mistake milky scented kid faces for the real thing. Another theory is that a sound the child makes, whether it's their voice or something else, may be a beacon for ferrets. Pharaoh, the old mellow fert, goes *NUTS* for a squeaky toy. He runs and jumps straight up to where ever he thinks the noise is coming from (he doesn't see well) and has bitten the heck out of me just for that toy, not that he is biting to make me drop it but because he can't tell where the toy begins and my finger ends. Cheers, Laura [Posted in FML issue 2988]