Ok, this was too funny not to share. My sister just adopted her second special needs child. She lives in Nevada, and they have many kids who were turned over to the state for one reason or another. We got her first at 10 (she will be turning 13 in June) and now we have an 8 year old. My husband and I got to meet her for the first time at Easter when they came down to my Mom's house. She was disappointed when I didn't bring my babies over....All the pictures they have of me are with the babies. So the next day I packed up my little ones and we all went to Grandma's. I knew they were excited when they spent 15 min in and out of the carrier waiting for Daddy to get out of the shower. (and people don't believe ferrets have any intelligence...mine know that a carrier + leads + their baby bag = road trip) Anyhow, for the rest of the day, my babies entertained my nieces. I watched as Tonya showed her new sister how to pick up the babies, how to hold them, how to walk them, ...and of course she fell in love. She came running in after dinner to ask me if she could get my "ant eaters" out of the carrier and play with them. We laughed and reminded her that they were called ferrets...then 10 min later she ran in to tell me that my "parrots" and used the litter box.....by the end of the night we had her calling them the right thing.....But last night when she called to say hi she wanted to know how my "ant eaters" were doing *sigh*....so somewhere in Nevada some confused teacher thinks that a crazy lady owns ant eaters as pets *grin* [Posted in FML issue 3398]