This is a little long, it's just that I am so excited we found one of our ferrets who has been missing for several days and I want to tell you all about it. I wanted to let everyone know they should keep an eye on their ferrrets behavior, especially if you are missing one of your little babies. Sunday night my wife and I realized we hadn't seen Joshua, one of our 5 free roaming ferrets, all day and became concerned. We pulled what we thought was the entire house apart plus we called the local animal shelters, vets, pet stores and neighbors and posted signs in the neighborhood under the theory he may have sneaked out some how. Well we had pretty much given up hopes of finding him alive, since we hadn't seen him in 3 days. This morning as we were getting up and gettting ready to travel to our families houses for Thanksgiving I noticed one of our ferrets acting a little hyper and what I at first assumed was playful in one of the rooms in our basement we don't use all that often. As I started playing with him (that's usually what he wants when he's hyper) I realized he was scratching and dooking at the couch in this room. When I reached under the couch I felt a little nose and a little scratch at my hand. Not wanting to get my hopes up too much I fully assumed that it was one of the other 3 ferrets that weren't missing just being playful, but with a slight sense of hope I lifted up the couch only to find our long lost babie. As you can imagine my wife and I are extremely happy that we found him, it really gives us something to be thankful for over Thanksgiving. So the moral of the story is play with your ferrets and pay attention to what they are doing and how they are behaving they may just tell you something very important. The other moral is don't give up hope, you may just find what you are looking for. One last moral is if you are ever missing a ferret check EVERYWHERE, even places you have never seen any of you ferrets show any interest in exploring or playing in, you never know what is going to interest them. Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Dan & Wendy and the happy 5 some: Joshua (what do you mean I was missing, I knew where I was the whole time) Toby (I am so happy my twin brother is back) Sammy (hey let me in the room where daddy broke the furniture looking for my brother, oh hi Josh) Sparky (hi Josh, nice to see you) Doodle Poops (the hero) [Posted in FML issue 3609]