Sean asked Scott and I, "how long can ferret remember"? I told him I thought he could only remember about 10 seconds (like a 2 yr old with bad ADD lol). But Scott said that he doesn't believe that because as many shelter opererators can tell you, if a ferret is physically abused by someone, that ferret will continue to bite only that sex after some rehab. Some never get used to the sex that hurt them ever. Another thing that comes into mind is how my friends ferret got lost in a hole in her bathroom one night. They finally got him out of a living room duct, and he was quite shaken up. Two days later, when I visited, I witnessed this same ferret walking an absolute b-line around that bathroom EVERY time he went to pass it. It was quite extraodinary. There is the fact that they do bond to specific humans and ferrets. I see specific cases of them remembering all the time. But then I see this extraodinarily short attention span (like a nanosecond). So, how long do they remember... and are we talking about different types of memory. And how do they remember.. with smell, with touch what? Wolfy Please visit: http://www.geocities.com/wolfysluv/ for information on ferret deafness: http://www.geocities.com/wolfysluv/deaf.html [Posted in FML issue 3848]