When we had a previous crew of ferrets I was known in the major mail order undergarment store I used as "the woman whose ferrets steal her panties". That is how often i had to replenish my own supply. Later, when that crew passed on and we moved some furniture i wound up with enough panties that I didn't have to order for years and years until age destroyed the elastic on too many of the ones I didn't get around to using again. It's bad when you suddenly have so many panties that the cloth outlives their elastic. Besides, you KNOW it is bad when a major retailer's sales people all know who you are because of repeated ferret thefts. ("You'll never guess who is calling! It's the woman whose ferrets steal her panties!") We currently have ferrets who steal Poise type pads. The condition is not important. They will with great joy empty an entire new bag of them if they get a chance (very expensive). So, never ask us to buy those for you. They will go missing just like the panties used to. We do have one who finds the ones hidden by Morney and Whizbang and returns them to people for a treat, though: Telemna does that. She is our first retriever ferret in about a quarter century. Years ago one of ours stole an EXPENSIVE pair of eyeglasses. They weren't found for at least 5 years. Actually, I am wearing that frame now with a new set of lenses. My eyes are really crummy, and since I live in glasses good frames really make a difference, so I guess the pair she stole must have been worth quite a few hundred dollars at the time. We also had one who stole photos and for some reason a certain set of old picies of me with three of the chimps i worked with decades ago would disappear for years at a time and then suddenly appear in the middle of the floor one day. That actually happened something like 3 times in a row. Ashling used to grab the tv remote (almost as big as her body was) lock her canines into the ridge where the top and bottom met, and then climb the closet, stashing it about 8 feet up (which, if memory serves was where my glasses finally appeared, too). If Spot could steal stamps (the old fashioned kind) he used to lick the sheet and rolls free of glue and then abandon them. One year we had to buy to buy about 150 to 200 new Christmas stamps. -- Sukie (not a vet, and not speaking for any of the below in my private posts) Recommended health resources to help ferrets and the people who love them: Ferret Health List http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/ferrethealth FHL Archives http://ferrethealth.org/archive/ AFIP Ferret Pathology http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html Miamiferrets http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/ International Ferret Congress Critical References http://www.ferretcongress.org [Posted in FML issue 5380]