My young jill Cassie came into heat about 2 months ago at the age of 5 months, and was given a hormone injection as I was not ready to spay her yet. She went through some normal false pregnancy stuff, like getting all sweet and cuddly, blowing her coat, getting enlarged nipples, etc. Her "due date" was about a week ago, and I put some small stuffed toys in her sleep sack in case she wanted to mother them. But she has picked the strangest things to consider her babies! She has adopted an 8" long, 1" wide strip of bright orange webbing with 4 large 1 1/2" noisy jingle bells on it. She keeps them snug in her sleep sack, and sometimes when she is let out to play, she drags them to the desk drawer for safe keeping. If I jingle them, she comes running and snatches them from me and puts them safely away. She is also driving her poor sister and cagemate Andi nuts, trying to drag her around too. So far it is not bad enough that I need to separate them. Andi is 3 weeks behind in her psuedo-pregnancy, but presumably will go through the same sort of thing. My question for breeders is how long will Cassie think she is a new momma before her behavior goes back to normal? I certainly hope it is before Andi thinks she's had babies too!! And if they happen to come back into heat again before the end of the summer, they're going under the knife!! Linda Iroff Oberlin OH [Posted in FML issue 3517]