Thanks, David, for mentioning Kouri stacking his Christmas cookies. That was the first time the Kensington Ferrets 'cooked', and it was great. What I found the most amazing was they never tried to eat their cookies. Each time I'd put the pan of cookies out for them, they each grab one and rush to a different corner with it. It was like they were playing a little ferret game of 'Who can stack the most cookies, the fastest'. Kouri is a natural stacker. He gots the stacking gene! The ferrets have lots of balls, and also one of those baby toys where various colored plastic rings are stacked on a peg. No, Kouri doesn't stack the rings on the peg (but I keep hoping)! What he does is to take the rings off the peg, then stack a ball on one of the rings. I find this configuration often. Georgia, from the west coast of the u s of a [Posted in FML issue 3078]