Hello all ~ Ling-ling continues to grow each day. I can now handle her without gloves, and touch her from behind with absolutely no startling. She is very, very active and has one speed - zoom! I've yet to have her out in the room and have her stop and take a rest, so after 4-5 hours I put her in her cage. She quietly dismantled her sleep sack last night, but has Tina's sleeper she can use. She snuggles way back in it. She has also discovered that wonderful escape mechanism known as "THE TUBES". She runs around in them like she owns them, and nobody can get to her in there she feels so safe. She has taken to stashing all of her goodies in there and Calvin is ever so grateful because he doesn't have to work to do his own stash. She has 5 new friends, 3 adult cats and 2 baby kitties. Strangely enough Sarah who likes nobody has taken to her. Sarah is the big black cat that guards Tim! She loves playing with Tygra and Gracie, the babies, in the afternoons and has her own cage in the kitchen. She has a new outside cage made of redwood and bunny wire. It has an overhang and is always in shade. She has discovered she can slide in and out of the bean box and likes it, as well as the bigger paper box. She can jump very high and is recognizing that when I clap my hands together it's anything goes. She is the only ferret I have ever had who can run down a ladder and it's a riot. She jumps the last 3 rungs. This is a little ladder we had for Houdini to get down from the kitchen chair when he aged. No matter when my feet hit the floor she is right there -- radar-- mommy afoot lol!!!!! Then it's all about the pants legs. No fettishes as yet, but then she's got a long way to go. She smells a bit like Jazzy, a bit of narcissius smell. Her tail poofs really big every thing she is playing with me, looks like a bottlebrush!!! She's had kisses already but hasn't learned to snuggle beyond being content in my arms as we travel upstairs and downstairs. That's about it for now. Warmly ~ Mary C [Posted in FML issue 4537]