>I love Persians to start with and I can't believe how mellow Percy >is around ferrets. I had a Persian growing up and he was by far the most laid back cat ever. We called him Fuzzbucket because he liked to sleep in a 5 gallon bucket and was so big and furry he almost filled it! I thought all Persians were like that. He was the only cat that we ever owned that would let you pick him up and love all over him for extended periods of time. Not that he enjoyed it...he was just to lazy to try to escape :) I don't think I ever heard him growl and he never bit anyone. One more story to demonstrate his laziness...We lived in the middle of nowhere surrounded by peanut fields. When they harvested the peanuts all the little field mice would head to our house for shelter so we always had traps out. The cat recognized the sound of a mouse trap when it went off and it was a foot race to beat him to the mouse. He loved to eat them but let the traps do the work instead of trying to catch them himself. Joy [Posted in FML 5789]