I've just gotta share this. We always have ferret escapades here at the shelter - but the funniest (lately) is one of the "free-roams"- her name is Little Ferret, but I've been calling her "EVIL" for months now. She's a tiny chocolate sable- she's been in the shelter for 2 1/2 years. She's 5+ years old and has adrenal cancer, but her Lupron injections have been very effective. Just last night she dug up all the kitchen window plants (lovely black potting soil all over EVERYTHING, like the white counter top), ohhh, and she steals my bags of potato chips. She doesn't eat them- she just likes the crinkle noise... or enjoys my irritation at losing my Utz Kettle-Cooked Russet Chips. She is constantly knocking over or stealing any item she can carry from the kitchen counter or the dining room table (yep, she's discovered several ways to get up there)- she also holds the title for "Knocking-Over-Cups-of-Milk-Into-My-Heat-Vent-Next-to-My Bed" (you can only imagine how smelly this is). Tonight, I kept hearing a rustle noise- I went to look, and all I could see was a squirrely chocolate sable butt and tail sticking up out of my purse. She was head, shoulders, full body inside my pocketbook. I kept hearing a funny rustle, crackle noise- and I grabbed her butt, pulled her out, and what was firmly locked in her mouth? A tin-foil blister package of...ummmm...Gas-X pills. The green ones. The green coating is sweet and candy-like. She was chewing through the blister packs to lick the pills. I had to laugh. A ferret that likes fart pills. Still. What a sneak. Bad Ferret. Bad, Bad Ferret. Although I guess it's better than when one of the ferrets took off down the hall with a Maxi-pad with wings in his mouth. He had it like a dog bone, with those "wings" flapping like crazy as he bolted for his "stash". Had to hide the box from him. Makes you wonder what plans he had for this little girly product. Dooks, Marlene B. Richmond Ferret Rescue League www.geocities.com/richmondferretrescueleague [Posted in FML issue 5131]