I have been owned by them for nearly 7 years now and what they have taught me is this... 1. Persistence always wins out!- looky at me mom I persisted and now I is out of my ferret safe room!! 2. The perfected art of the Vulcan/Ferret mind meld - if I stare at mom long enough I's get a raisin! 3. Tis good to always be into something - I is into the trash can, look I is in the toilet!, I is now in the fireplace, and three of us are white! 4. Wake up early, sleep all night - 18 hours of sleep on the average is a good thing! 5. If it's not nailed down, it's MINE! If it is nailed down and can be pried up, it's still MINE!!! 6. The great and often used art of such words as - NO!, oops!, GET OUT OF THERE!, and AHHHHHHH!!! - no, no, don't poop on the floor use the litter pan! 7. The word is not steal but rather borrow, liberate, abscond, moved, relocated etc. etc. etc. 8. Love, love, love, give some of that fuzzy warm love! And that is just some of the wonderful things my fuzzies have taught me. Sandy and her Part Six pack + 6 angels [Posted in FML issue 4717]