Dear Pam, you write so well! While I read your post telling about Mischief's escape I could almost feel all the anguish you must've felt during those terrible days without her! I don't even wanna think about how horrible and heartbroken and sick of worry I would feel if either my cuties Logan or Leeloo were to disappear... I just feel so happy that you found your cute Mischief! You're real lucky that guy finally contacted you, I'm sure it wasn't only luck but also your amazing persistance and incredible effort in finding her, if you had only posted a couple of fliers (like some people do) and not kept on running around looking, investigating and asking around day after day and nights too, I'm sure she would still be in that horribly crowded room missing her human terribly! She's a real lucky little girl and probably very very happy to that her human found her! I remember when I was a little kid (I always love all kinds of animals) I did bring a few cats home (which my mom would never let me keep anyway) and I was never conscious of how bad their humans and other animal-companions must be feeling! I mean, there's tons of poor stray animals back where I used to live that don't have anyone looking for them, some never had! But still, even if those cats didn't have anyone it does NOT justify me never asking around if anyone lost their cat, nor posting some flies of found-kitty... it was not nice at ALL and only now years later having my own pets and also reading stories like yours that I see how horrible I behaved as a kid, shame on me and all those people that don't care about the feelings of others, humans or pets, who don't stop to think of how much the poor little dog/cat/ferret will be missing his beloved human and his possible companion-animals! :-( (not to mention all the stress the poor animal is going though, and stress can really make a ferret sick, from ulcers and other problems, looking around for his human and fur-friends, missing home and not finding his home and favorite toys...) Anyway, I'd never keep a found animal again without searching all over the place for it's humans. And (God-forbid) if one day my beloved Leeloo + Logan manage to escape, or any ferret of you guys here on FML, I hope with all my heart that whoever finds him/her thinks about all the people suffering, and of what's best for the poor ferret, which is (not always of course, I'm not speaking of abandoned or abused/neglectes ferrets!) THEIR humans! Sorry it was so long, I was just feelin' real bad thinking about those cats and looking down at Leeloo as she kissed me. Big hug to all you cute ferrets out there! Er... and the humans too! ;- ) And a HUGE hug to wonderful ferret Maria who might look like a mole but who is real special!!! (and her mom Lisette too--nope, all the ferret- babble and kissin' doesn't sound repulsive at ALL, I'm sure we all can't help but do the same once in a while... I mean, all the time!) :- ) OH! And anyone who wanna see how Logan + Leeloo look like (they're two German ferrets), they got a homepage (not finished yet), I made it for my family mostly and for people in Brazil where ferrets are starting to get popular (imported from the States) but where most people don't know how to take care of them or never heard of them! So on the site I wanted to put photos of my beloved cuties but also give some info for the Portuguese/Spanish speakin' folks. So you can all see Logan + Leeloo at: http://cperth.vila.bol.com.br/ Hope you like them! (I sure can't help but love them cuties!) :-D Chris and Logan + Leeloo [Posted in FML issue 3501]