Sunday night I watched a PBS special called Animals behaving badly.The subject was what happens when humans live in close proximity to wildlife and the animals use the situation to advantage.Among the marauding bears, monkeys, buzzards and sea lions were critters called stone martens.They are members of the weasel family and look just like ... you guessed it.. ferrets. Only big difference is a overall tan body color. There is an area of Europe ( ?) where authorities were bewildered by a slew of car vandalizing incidents.There were over 100,000 reports of a certain type of car engine sabotage.The situation becoming costly and out of control a smart resident set up video survailence. Stone martens ( incredibly like ferrets) are territorial. At night they find their favorite car , make it their home sweet hidey hole and snooze away in the warmth of the car engine.A particular stone marten becomes very attached to his high tech hidey hole and if another marten trys to make it HIS hidey hole the first one shows how upset he is at the intruder by chewing up the engine cables and hoses. Over one hundred thousand cars were altered into the ultimate hidey hole by the clever stone martens before the big dumb humans figured out what was wrong with their cars.Stone martens Rock.. !!!... Link to Animals behaving badly http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/behaving/index.html Second subject is Aunt Lili.My daughter has a boyffiend who lives on Long island. He went into a petland discounts there. If you think petco is bad.. petco is heaven compared to a petland discounts.There was a young kit in a filthy cage. No food, no water and the kit was thin ,weak and clearly ill. This was in the morning and the boyfriend spoke to the manager about the kit's conditons.He went back many hours later and there was no change in the filthy conditions.No food or water either.He tryed to reach me but could not so he called his Aunt Lili.Aunt Lili is a big woman . She marched down to petland discounts and threw a hissy fit.She yelled at the manager calling him a heartless abuser and asked how he would like to live in a filthy cage with his own feces , no food and no water and have people come and poke at him.She called him a scoundrel when he claimed to be following Petland protocall.She threw the display of dog collars at him.She ended up buying the kit and demanded a discount becasue ""the merchandise was damaged"She filed a complaint with the better bussiness beureau and humane society.The poor kit was being given hard dry food and could not eat.No one bothered to give fresh water in his water bottle..The poor kit was crazed with ear mites but could not even scratch himself.His gums were bleeding.Aunt Lili is now nursing the kit back to health and happiness and will give him a forever home. I would like to say thank you to Aunt Lilli and also ROCK ON AUNT LILI...!!!!... Christine http://www.geocities.com/weaselator1/ferrets.html [Posted in FML issue 4139]