Ok, this is strange, and I don't know whether to be concerned or not. There is a new website, which I found out about on the local news, called www.youcanbarter.com. This interests me, so I've been checking the site with relative frequency. Today, I found an ad, posted very recently, from Centralia, IL, asking to trade "Tree Trimming, Pruning, Lawn Care, Web Design" for "2 ferrets or a Female Yorkshire Terrier". In the details, the poster specifies wanting a male and female ferret. (Though it says nothing about wanting a WHOLE female and male.) Now, I suppose that it shouldn't bother me that someone would want ferrets, or that someone would want to trade something non-monetary for those ferrets. But the fact that this is posted in THIS way, and that she specifies wanting a male and female, does send up some flags. It also occurs to me that a person wanting ferrets AND terriers isn't the best combination. An email address is listed, but I really don't know what I would even say. Maybe someone more learned or less shy (Me, shy?) than me would be interested in finding out this person's intentions and how well they'd be able to follow through with them? Melissa Rotert Mira, Robin, Samurai and O'Dell Missing Cael, Booboo, Tasha and Nietsche always [Posted in FML issue 4256]