I'm so happy to hear that the weasels are all getting along so well. The ducky is funny as heck, Ferrets find certain shapes or colors or textures irresistable. each seem to have a preferance ,, we had one (we have had about 50 ferrets in the last ten years , all but two were rescues, we had a commitment to the local petco that when someone brought back a fert they would call us to come and rescue him/her.We usually found placement in about a week , but some we not "placeable". We had a very tough case, he was Nueby (New-be) , a friend went to visit her friends at thier apartment and they were gone, she went to the management and inquired, they didn't know they had left, they went over to the apartment and found it cleared out and dark as the power was off. After a quick look around they heard scratching in the bathroom and that is where they found him. Nueby was left with the water trickling in the shower and a 10 lbs bag of cat food on the floor ripped open. Apparently he was in there in total darkness by himself for 1-2 weeks ... We got the call, we went over there and found a lathargic male , thin, fecal matter all over his feet and just a mental wreck. It took about a month to see some light in his eyes. He never got over the depression but we providd a good life for him , he went in the night with his family still balled around him . OK, back to happy places So with our psuedo rescue. At one point we had 13,,,it was too funny, two ferrets take the "Human" funny level to a 4, three ferrets=6, 4ferts=8, 13, you're peeing your pants you are laughing so hard ...that multiply the humor so much...and the happy dancing , dooking, chuckling and all that stuff is super imposed ..... We kept them in a 5 foot square cage that was full of shreaded aspen, I mean full to about a foot from the top where the food and water was , they made and maintained tunnels and sleep cambers and the such , the floor of the sleeping camber was lined (by them) with socks , washcloths, shreaded rags, and the stuffing from a few stuffed animals . all brought in when they were out and about the house. the main cage had two tunnels made out of that black plastic 4 inch tubing, this tyed the main cage to another cage 4 feet away that was lined with newspaper, shreaded aspen ans other stuff ,,,,they treated this just like wild ferrets, they will always poop outside thier burrow if they can. So they made a distinction between the two cages as the tubes came up in the "Poop" area much like to opening to a burrow.... oh and the whole lot, all 13 would sleep in a huge ball. The black tubing had a "T" in the middle so when we would let them out we just pulled out the plug from the "T" and one by one they would poke thier head out then flash out and under the couch like some mission impossible thing,,,ninja ferrets. once they were all out you would see heads slip out from the bottom, edge of the couch as if to see if the coast was clear (what is "Coast is clear? clear of what, tourist?") then they would launch out in mass, and the party began , soon the sounds of trash cans tipping over, cans in lower cabinets being pushed out, pans being rattled, and then it got quiet, ,,,,that was when you knew something was being discussed and planned ... soon a diversionary attack would commence while the others made off with "The Goods". Raisins, cookies, dog biscuits, cat treats, heck one could even pull the fridge door open (well that was also because the door was sort of broken) and soon the russel of plastic gave a hint of "The Heist"... you would go to the kitchen just to see a flash of fur going around the corner dragging a bag of something , most likely fruit. These ferrets seemed to be more like "The Borg" when one would retire to the cage the others soon followed and that was the end of the show. I figure it was thier way of Regenerating. If we could have only made it into some sort of grenwich village dinner show we'd be rich. Well thank you everyone for the nice words , it is nice to be back... Mark (Death Adder) [Posted in FML issue 4399]