Many thank you's to FMLers who've sent me good advice and friendly emails about these problems. Lately my experience with FML has gotten richer and I appreciate the group more than ever. I am not yet sure what approach I wll be taking. My first approach will be to follow a member's advice to give hem all shampoos so they all smell the same and prhaps the attackers will be more accepting of the new guys. **It is hard to not anthropomorphise and speak of the evil doers vs the new babies!** If the shampooing doesn't do the job, then the question willl be whether to separate the 9 into two groups or to find homes for the youngsters, Jonas and Eric. They are still young (abt 3 months, I imagine) and are very desirable, I am sure, plus they are already paid for, not to mention vaccinated! They are very dear and interesting, and even when I first got them they were more attentive than I've ever seen before -- I think Marshall's must be training their ferrets to come to people as soon as they see them. They are also more vocal -- more dooking and chuckling. Jonas was also able to cuddle as soon as I got him, even though he was only abt 2 months old -- something I have never experienced before. (In fact I am going to post this issue as a spparate email to the group to see what other people think.) So of course I want to keep them! Decisions to be made. Sparate gruops would mean giving up my dream for my business of being freely able to travel from indoors to outdoors and along the elelvated walkway branching paths to go to whatever environment they choose.... Also, of course one group would mean less management tasks for me and more time to just hang withthe [Posted in FML issue 5378]