Don't worry, this is the result of very far-out daydreaming, not any actual plans to breed ferrets, but I was curious, what precisely do ferret breeders have to do to breed ferrets? I mean, besides the obvious boy-and-jill stuff. Do the ferrets need to be kept sexually seperate all year? Are the poor hobs stuck on their own, since they might fight with each other? How does a breeder go about finding their ferrets, choosing who to breed to who, and when to do so? Also, what's involved in raising kits? It was more the result of reading some stuff on cat breeding and the troubles of keeping people to a no-breed contract that got me wondering how ferret breeders managed, which led to other thoughts... Melissa Smith [Posted in FML issue 4154]