Hi Stephanie, Loved your little joke about the kookaburras. Biss actually did come back some hours later and retrieved her chick from the shrub, so I consider her act a very clever one indeed. I do hope you can make it to the symposium and I will bring some Vegemite just in case there has been a run on it and the stores have none! BIG, when my son was dating a young lady from Millwaukie, she said that Vegemite tasted overwhelmingly of yeast and was horrid. That's not how it tastes to we who have been brought up on it. :-) Todd, of course ferrets have good taste! Why, only last night I came home from work to find the contents of the 4 kibble bowls very tastefully arranged all over the house. They'd even managed to add an extra dimension to their art work by including about 1/2 ton of sand from their tunnels in the front and back yards. Well, maybe there wasn't quite 1/2 ton. Love & Dooks, Shirley [Posted in FML issue 4518]