Extremely cute, very healthy, female, 3 year old, black-eyed white ferret needs a home in Northern California. She has a complete set of vet records, has been well taken care of, she does a wonderful "dance of joy", and is litter trained. Her name is Daisy, and she is free to an appropriate home. Before you jump at the chance, you should know that Daisy is a biter. We got her at about 10 weeks of age from a pet store in Nevada. She has never been abused, and has had an attitude problem since we got her. My wife, also a subscriber to this list, has solicited advice from you folks for years. We've tried for a long, long time to rehab her with lots of love, patience, and appropriate discipline, but have not been successful. So don't think Daisy is an easy nut to crack. We have 4 ferrets, including Daisy, and the other 3 are wonderful. The alpha male doesn't get hassled by her too much, but the other two are subject to her abuse on a regular basis. I am often awakened in the middle of the night to the sound of a screaming ferret, caused by Daisy biting them. Which brings me to the reason we are giving her away. Two of our ferrets (the ones Daisy harasses) recently had major surgery, and will not be capable of dealing with Daisy as well as they used to. And to make matters worse, Daisy is now going after them with a vengeance, we don't know why. All I have to do is turn my head for a minute, and Daisy will have seized one of them by the neck, and be shaking them mercilessly. Daisy bites humans, too. Most of the time she's fine. But you can tell when she's getting ready to bite. 99% of the time it's avoidable. You can hold her and handle her, and as long as you can recognize the signs of when she's going to cause problems, you'll be fine. We believe ferrets should be able to run free for at least a portion of the day, and the situation here is such that we must keep Daisy permanently separated from the others. It's not fair to her to keep her caged all the time, and we're not going to get into rotating free roaming schedules. We know people on this list will try to get us to put more time into Daisy. But we've heard it all, and tried it all, and have reached a point where we need to find her a new family. I suspect Daisy would do just fine in an environment with dominant ferrets. Daisy is very small, and generally backs off when she knows the other ferret won't take her guff. If you're interested, please send me an email. We can drive her to any place near the bay area, or could make arrangements to take her further, if necessary. Here are a couple pics of her: http://merrick.tv/daisy thanks for listening, Gary [Posted in FML issue 3998]