I also have a vocal ferret! She is a little extremely fat dark eyed white. She is also deaf. She is a rescue who had been abandoned and left out in the cold in a cage. Whenever she thinks that one of her "brothers" might touch her she just squeals!, although I've spied on her and seen her dish it out herself!. I know that she knows that this squealing quickly brings "Mom" to her rescue. She also grunts when she poops and is quite the little "dooker". Angie George [Posted in FML issue 3748]