Do you ever have those instances when your ferrets do something strange, and you wonder, "What are they thinking?" Luna Bella offers me a good example. Luna always tries to wear my bras. I kid you not. In the morning, when I go to dress, I first lay my clothes out on my bed. If Luna is around, as soon as she sees me lay my bra down, she climbs up on the bed and tries to get into it. Now, Luna has a rather odd notion of how a bra is to be worn - she puts her head through the armholes, so it is dangling around her neck. And, then she attempts to walk off wearing the bra. Of course, what generally happens is she gets all tangled up in it, or it slips down her body and off. Then, she does a little dance, and tries to climb back into it unless I grab it away. Now, the above happens on a regular basis. And so, I have to wonder what her attraction is to my bras, and why she tries this over and over despite the fact it always fails. If they were my soiled bras, I would chalk it up to wanting to be close to my scent. But, no, these are my fresh from the laundry bras. Connor offers another example. Connor has a family of snakes. Actually they are a collection of Rik-E Tik-E toys, but we call them Connor's snakes (for anyone not familiar with these toys - http://www.bestpetsupply.com/shopping/pricelist.asp?prid=1551 ). Whenever a new Rik-E Tik-E toy comes into the house, Connor has to modify it. They come with a small jingle ball in the tail, and Connor immediately removes that (could this be a form of castration?), and then allows the toy to join his family of snakes. Each night, when Connor gets out to play, he searches through the house rounding up all his snakes, and he lines them up in front of the entrance to my shower stall. Occasionally, he will put them into the shower stall, but most nights they are simply lines up side by side along the entrance. His brother Roarke will sometimes remove the snakes and carry them off, and then Connor has to locate them and again put them by my shower stall. Connor is a little OCD, though, so that might explain this obsession. He has also been know to take pieces of kibble and line them up around the edge of his cage (I can't even begin to fathom the meaning behind that). Meesha is another one with an obsession. In her case, it is her babies. Ever since she came here, Meesha has had 5 toys she claims as hers. We have quite an assortment of ferret toys, and many duplicates of things they really like. The 5 that Meesha chose are all individuals - and are also in no way similar to each other. Each day, when Meesha gets out to play, she searches through the house for her 5 babies, and then collects them and makes a nest for them in my bed. She puts the babies under the covers, and will also take some kibble and put in the nest with them. One of these toys is a stuffed animal that is almost as big as Meesha, and it is amazing to see her get that thing up on the bed, and then under the covers. Meesha is a very dedicated mommy, and sometimes will choose to sleep with her babies. Sometimes she will simply stay up on the bed guarding them from the other girls. But, most times after she has them all settled in, she will go off to explore the house. Valkyrie is our gymnast ferret, or perhaps it is extreme sports ferret. She jumps and climbs and often goes places where no ferret has gone before. While other ferrets are playing with toys or each other, Val is off looking for new challenges. She is my first ferret who regularly get up on the toilet lid in my bathroom. This is not good, because from there she gets an the bathroom vanity, and really wrecks havoc. So, one day, in an attempt to foil her, I left the toilet lid up. Pretty soon, Val went running into the bathroom, and as I watched, leaped up on the toilet seat. Unfortunately, she was expecting the lid instead of the seat, and so she slid <SPLASH> into the toilet. Without missing a beat, she leapt back out and onto the seat, and then, dripping wet, leapt onto the vanity. She acted like the dip in the toilet was all part of the plan. With Val, I have since learned that leaving both the lid and the seat up keeps her from getting onto the vanity, so in my bathroom, we actually want the seat left up. I could go on and name more examples, but maybe some of the rest of you have ferrets with similar habits - the kind that leave you wondering, "What are they thinking?" Danee DeVore ADV - If your ferret hasn't been tested, you don't know! For more information visit: http://www.ferretadv.com ADV - Find out how you can help: http://help4adv.terrabox.com/ [Posted in FML 6173]