Ah, guess what -- we have a brand new business -- of EIGHT. A great variety of young and older, all sizes and colors and personalities I decided to get the ferret math over with in one week. If I really do have a 2-month recovery period for my brrrAIN surgery, I want to have plenty of ...... OK, OK, yes, I know that is just an excuse. But a pretty good one, don't you think? I call it Pulling the Brain-Tumor Card. Some of the ferts are water-dish swimmers -- for example, I found Cleo doing the BACKstroke in one of their water platters this AM. You know how luxuriously some of them stretch out on their backs in their bedding? Well that platter is about at eye level, and when I saw her, out of the corner of my eye, stretching out on her back and rolling left and right, I assumed she was on fleece. No, NOT. She was lying in the water platter... OMG -- does anyone know a way to entice them to swim in one platter and to drink out of the other???????? I guess I can't use chlorine to t ID the swimming platter... What to do. what to do? Maybe all platters are pools, and dishes are required for drinking activities. [Posted in FML 6160]