While cleaning up the disaster of a ferret room in our house, I discovered the stockpile of ferret leashes and harnesses that I haven't seen in two years. Those ferts are really good at hiding stuff! So I laced up all four ferrets and out to the leaf pile we went! What a fiasco! Each fert wanted to go to the four corners of the globe. All different directions, then twisting under each other, wrapping up leashes, switching sides, around my legs. The only one who really played in the leaves was Slinky. He jumped around and had a blast. The others ran all over with their tails poofed not caring about leaves or anything else. When we got closer to the house, Toby actually jumped up the backstairs and tried to go through the screen on the sliding door! So I gave up and brought them inside. A whole 4 minutes in the great outdoors! At least they slept well the remainder of the afternoon. :-) ===== Aileen & the Herd The Ferrets: Slinky, Kyle, Noel, & Toby The Dogs: Rootie the beagle & Tank the GSD/basset Still missing Sandy & Gizmo. We love you. Check out the Herd's website at: http://www.geocities.com/anippy [Posted in FML issue 3600]