>From: Angela <[log in to unmask]> > >Well, later on I let my furzies play in a tub of water and decided to try >this mild soap on one of them. I wetted her thoroughly and poured some >of this ever so mild soap on her...washed and rinsed and dried, then let >her do her own drying... > >All day yesterday and today I've been sniffing her in comparison to the >one I didn't wash... I realize that when doing an experiment it is good to have a *control* to better assess the results, but it is usually a better idea to bathe all or none of the ferrets in a business, since scent plays such a major role in dominance issues. *The smelliest ferret always wins* is the way I heard it expressed. Carol "Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know." -James Baldwin (1924-1987) Let us not look back in anger or foward in fear, but around in awareness. -James Thurber [Posted in FML issue 3880]