Hello, y'all! I've recently been contacted by a young ferret owner who's having a very hard time with a biting ferret she recently rescued and needs advice on how to most effectively teach it NOT to bite. I've sent her some ideas and proposed some explanations for the biting behavior but am severely limited on time at the moment so I could only barely skim the surface. Plus I am also very limited in my own personal experiences b/c I've not been around very many hard (draw blood) biting ferrets. (One of my suggestions is that she wear gloves if the bites are that bad!) If anyone out there has a few moments to drop her a line, we would both REALLY appreciate it! Please feel free to copy me as well so I can file the info. away for future use. Her name is Louise and here's her email address and a bit of her original email to me - both of which I've been given permission by her to post - Louise / [log in to unmask] writes: "Hi Jen I just rescued 2 ferrets that have been living outside, covered with feces with even maggots - it was pretty scary! The one female (panda) bites alot and for no reason. I would try to get her out of her hammock when she's awake and she turns and bites me every time! ... She will follow me around when I am in the ferret room and bite my feet and these are REALLY hard bites... She really scares me. I'd like to be able to handle her but I'm too freaked out right now!" Thanks everyone! ! ! ! Jennifer, WAFL Organizer and willing slave to the dynamic duo, Sasha & Snowball :-) [Posted in FML issue 5147]