Dear FMLers. Why is it that as a ferret group we find fault in someone's misfortune? Why is it we criticize what happened like we would have never let that happen to one of OUR Ferrets? Truth is ferrets are very inquisitive animals who wants to know what is going on around them all the time. I have always said that Ferrets are too smart for OUR own good... It is true and we all know it. If you do not YET have an accident story you will have someday. I have one that happend to our big boy Saber some years back. He got into a Valentine Basket that I had bought for my wife. we figured that since all the other frets paid it no mind whatsoever, Saber wouldn't bother it now would he? Oh yes he would and he did. He broke a wine glass that came in the basket and cut himself along the upper rib cage. As soon as we found out he was off to the emergency vey and stitched up and fitted with his very own custom made P-Collar made out of a piece of X-Ray Film. That costs us over $350.00 for that lil escapade and we learned a lesson as well. With ferrets ALWAYS EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED!!! It can happen to you... Anyway folks why pick on someone who lost a fret by an accident when we all do lots of the same things? I am a bit tired of this group acting the way it does at times. Not just the FLM group folks, I am not talking about email groups but Ferret folks in general. We tend to want to shoot our wounded rather than try to help them out. Lets stop this self defeating behavior and reach out to the folks who need us and not try to tear them "new one" OK? I joined this list as well as other lists to be able to help my ferrets by not making dumb mistakes... But as we know ferrets figure things out a tad differently than we do and they act on what they think they know. Thats why we have frets with broken legs from falling off of beds, broken backs from fall off coffee tables, death by being caught up in recliners, suffocation but falling down into tight areas, the list goes on and on but the ferrets learn new ways to get hurt or killed. We cannot completely ferret proof anything as we are always a bit behind on the learning curve. But we do have the capacity to help others and to warn others and to be there for others when they have a nasty experience. Live and Learn folks.. Live and Learn. Best to all Remeber After All IT IS FOR THE FERRETS!!!! Fred Hurd Reno Nevada. Not perfect..just Forgiven... [Posted in FML 6092]