I am sitting here reading a few recent fml posts about controling ferret scent. My husband who needs to wash his own clothes comes up with the small ferret laundry load that included a red sweater commandeered by my three fuzzgirls long ago. The sweater has been in a bag at my Mom's since sometime after Baby (the last of my fuzzgirls) passed in December and my condo was put up for sale. You would think I would have washed it then, but saving it for "her scent" would make perfect sentimental sense, it would also make sense for the stink it held this weekend when my mother returned it to me in a trash bag full of other ferret bedding she had held for me. I put it in a load with the fuzzie blankets of my three current hobs (oh the horror, sorry Baby!) and didn't think much of it til my husband held it up dry and asked where to put the bedding. I smiled remembering Baby's head sticking out of the arm and her little body curled up in the center of it snoozing soundly. I grabbed for it (now remembering it's source) and held it tight against my face, desperate for one more scent of my fuzzgirl. In vain, nothing but fresh laundered smell. My husband smiled, not at my disappointment, but at the fact of how we try so hard to get rid of ferret scent and yet yearn for it too. So while you can, breath it in! Risa [Posted in FML 5713]