Dear Ferret Folks- Switch the Kit has discovered a vile new way to behave. I've gotten used to the occasional "I'm gonna redecorate my cage violently" tantrum when she doesn't get let out on demand. I've gotten used to the "I'm gonna bite and kick the cage bars" tantrum because you're not letting me out. Those two vile behaviors are followed by profound periods of teenager-like sulking. I could deal with all of that. It's the mockery I can't stand. Yes, my weasel has taken to mocking me. It used to be she'd find a way to escape from her room, and she'd take a liesurely tour of the house. I'd find her skinny little back half sticking out of the top of one of my winter boots. I'd gently return her to her room. She'd get out again, I'd hear her sneezing under my bed because of all the dust bunnies she'd plowed up. I'd return her to her room, a little less gently this time. Eventually she'd give up after a few rounds of this game. Not any more. In the last few days she's taken a fierce liking to this game. She stopped taking those leisurely tours of the house. She'll vault over the ferret-proofed (ha ha sucker) baby gate and hit the floor running. Zooooom, right under the nearest major household appliance or immovably heavy piece of furniture. Oh, what fun! See the humans crawl on the floor! I will turn into a molecular mist, and flow, atom by atom under the sofa! Whee! The final, unendurable act of mockery occured last night. Don't ask me how she managed to get out soundlessly THIS time, but she did. Did she go run and hide? Nope. She ran into the living room as bold as brass.. stopped dead long enough to ensure that we all saw her...she looked us all in the eye one by one...THEN zooooomed away and into the laundry-strewn bedroom. I swear she stopped just to say "Lookit meeee! I'm being bad! Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!" Very funny. Ha. Alexandra in Massachusetts Switch the Kit: "Sucks to be you, hoomans!" Sabrina the Bat-Biter: "Heh. I ate all the food while you were gone, kid!" [Posted in FML issue 3685]