Diddy wrote: >Merlin took one sniff of the cable tech and went ballistic!!! His whole >body puffed up and he was barking and hissing at the same time. I had a similar experience once. I had been out in the garden moving some sacks of potatoes when I realized a cat had peed all over the sacks. I got some of it on my clothes and when one of my hobs, Phoibos, smelled that he reacted exactly like Merlin! There were 3 hobs in the room at the time, but only Phoibos reacted this way. He is normally a very calm and friendly ferret, but now he was so upset I didn't dare go near him. When I changed clothes and gave him the cat smelling jeans, he kept 'killing' the jeans until I took them away from him. He has encountered cats occasionally before and never reacted this way. It seems it was the cat pee that set him off. Marie [Posted in FML issue 3331]