Dear Ferret Folks- It took her a full five days, but at long last, Switch the Kit finally vanquished the Giant Fur Mouse. When I say vanquished, I mean that she finally managed to stash it so that it STAYED stashed. There is no possibility that it just bounced back on the end of its' elastic string and caught against something. She STASHED it, all right, it took me a good five minutes to dig it out. After perhaps 3,876,397 attempts, here is what worked for her...I had to follow the trail of the elastic cord to find the mouse. It wrapped around the edge of the door it is attached to, it was stretched out back behind the door, and slanted down to the floor of the closet behind that door. As it slanted down to the floor, it wrapped completely around one of those summertime box fans that you can put in your window. It was wrapped not only around the 'box' frame itself, but the handle as well...one wrap each. The cord then zigged between two plastic laundry baskets on the closet floor, one of those baskets held the fan. The cord was wrapped completely around the base of othe other laundry basket, the one without the fan. The cord then zagged up and over the lip of the other laundry basket, and disappeared into the pile of junk inside of it. I started removing the junk piece by piece, all the while fearing that when I released the mouse, it would snap up and hit me in the face. (Not quite, but almost. Fortunately I was ready for it.) Finally I picked up a ziplock bag stuffed full of ferret stuff I find on sale, but never use, like dry powdered ferret bath in a shaker can, and THPLATT! The mouse whipped part way around the base of the laundry basket. I unwrapped it and ZAM, TOONK! It snapped against the fan. I untangled it from the handle on top of the fan and POW! It bonked the back of the door (nearly clipping my right ear in the process), and finally, swung free at the end of it's cord. I then looked up to see Switch and Sabrina sitting up in their hammock just looking at me like "We were SLEEPING, thank you, before you made all that noise playing with the Giant Fur Mouse, oh, bipedal hominid and pinnacle of mammalian evolution that you are, are you DONE PLAYING WITH THE CAT TOY NOW, HMMM?" God, it was embarrassing. Alexandra in Massachusetts Switch the Kit: "It wasn't making any noise the way I had it, thank you very much." Sabrina: "No, it wasn't. It was JUST FINE the way it was, until SOMEBODY went and messed with it." Both: ''Hmmph!" [Posted in FML issue 3755]