Darrin wrote: >Let them get used to you, and where they are, and the change in their >life... let them start to trust you , and "then" they will easily learn >not to nip... Thank you Darrin for this excellent advice. I wish I had read your post about 4 years ago. It took me much too long to find this out for myself, that my poor little biteygurl Parris was actually a frightened, insecure ferret. I thought that since I was giving her a *better* life than she'd had for the two previous years she would be so much happier. I now know her world was turned upside down and inside out, even with the best of intentions on my part. Thanks for posting Darrin, I just know you have helped the little ferret and his new owner. Ardith and a now not-so-biteygurl Parris [Posted in FML issue 4677]