A lot of people have emailed me about ferret bathing and also posted comments here. This weekend has been really crazy for me and I want to apologize if I haven't gotten back to you yet. I want to thank everyone for taking time out to email me and share their opinion with me. I've learned a lot from all of you, (not that what I've learned so far has led me to any absolute conclusions on the bathing issue)! I think what it comes down to is individual preference and if you and your fuzzies are happy that's all that matters! As for me I'm needing a bit of encouragement right now so please say a prayer for me. My "baby" (half) brother is being sent off to Bosnia soon and he's my step-moms only son, so she's terrified something bad is going to happen- which gives me two people to worry about, one of my close friends went surfing this week and broke his neck and they still don't know if he's going to be paralyzed yet (he doesn't have health insurance either :-( So all our extra money is going to help him and his roommate) and another friends cancer came back and she confided in me that she's just tired of fighting it...) All this makes my broken toes look as trivial as a papercut... Thanks for all the smiles your posts give me. It's the times when we have the most to bear that the true value of friendship is revealed... [Posted in FML issue 3880]