Oh, now you've done it... we've started a whole new thread. When we got our two kits in 2000, we had forgotten how crazy young ferrets are. They got into the bathroom (where they were allowed, but discouraged) and up into the toilet (we'd neglected to close it). They were splashing around, happy as could be. My husband reached for them to pull them out (and give them a bath, of course). The sable male came out with no problem, but the little albino female decided she was having too much fun for her daddy to stop. So she dove for the "tunnel" in the bottom of her swimming pool. He just barely caught her by the tail and pulled her out enough to grab her properly and remove her from danger. But we could not imagine what we could have done if she had actually gotten into the drain. We have a concrete slab that our drain pipes run through, instead of them running into a basement where we might have been able to access them. Debbie [Posted in FML issue 5019]