Hey there, A long time ago on the FML, we all discussed our birds of prey and ferrets. I bet if you searched the archives, you would find all of them. Lots of good stories. I remember the story Sukie posted. About the owl and how she had to act like she ate her ferret. I remember another story, but really sad, some people went camping with their baby ferret, it was playing on the ground and some bird swooped down and grabbed it, flew off into a tree and ate it right in front of them. Years ago, I used to take my ferrets to the park at night. Less people at night. It was a well lit park. The ferrets were snooping around in the grass and a small owl came in and was hovering right above one of my ferrets. Now this owl was very small, light brown and he acted very confused. My ferret started to jump up and down. Trying to play with him I think. I was horrified and ran over to make sure nothing happened. Then the owl flew over to a nearby fence and sat there doing that back and forth head movement. Then another owl showed up but much smaller than the first one. They both sat on the fence and watched us while I watched them. Ingrid [Posted in FML issue 4461]