For the past couple of weeks I have been at the home of Tom and Cindy Scheidt, who make the Ferret Tower of Fun. I have watched the individual construction of many of these and can tell you the care and detail that goes into each is absolutely amazing! It is almost as much fun to watch them make them as it is to watch the ferrets play with them. There is a lot more care that goes into the towers than I put into the toys I toss in with my guys! The Scheidts have about 6 play groups - 8 if you add my two groups of two! - and they have their own Tower. It is so much fun to watch four ferrets at a time try to maneuver through the tube. They will start their little runs around the living room and then chase each other through the tubes on the floor and up the cat rest. They will head for an entrance to the tube, not realizing that someone else might have entered the other end. They chase and they confront! It is so much fun. Someone hides a piece of kibble in there to snack on later and it is discovered by another. Even MY kids, who snubbed it on our first pass through, play in it on this visit! Skitch, who is afraid of tubes in general (I think it is because he is so fat!) has been playing in the tower. OK, I am procrastinating! But, when you can watch ferrets enjoying themselves, so what? Right? ;-) -- Renee Downs "Eventually we will realize that if we destroy the ecosystem we destroy ourselves." Jonas Salk "The most effective way to do it, is to do it." Amelia Earhart It's amazing how much can be accomplished if nobody cares who gets the credit! Ferret Emergency Response, Rescue & Evacuation Team (F.E.R.R.E.T.) http://www.ferretemergency.org [log in to unmask] International Ferret Congress http://www.ferretcongress.org American Red Cross http://www.redcross.org [Posted in FML 6055]