I must be a bad ferret owner too! My ferrets are caged whenever I am not at home and while I am sleeping, and I am very strict about this. When I allowed free roam (occasionally - like when I couldn't find them & I had to leave for work) I came home to a dead ferret one day. I don't know exactly what happened because my boyfriend at the time cleaned everything up before I saw it, but he (the ferret) managed to knock something over onto himself. I really felt like a bad ferret owner at the time and it took a long time to get over the guilt. I feel guilty about it now - 5 years later! Holly [Posted in FML issue 3747]