If any other FMLers out there like fantasy/science fiction, there's a series of books by Kat Richardson about a PI in Seattle who is technically dead for two minutes and comes out of it with the ability to see into the "Grey", the area between life and death. This woman owns a ferret (named Chaos!) and the ferret is very realistically presented. It turns out that the author owns two ferrets herself, which explains why the ferret in the books is so real. To date, the books are "Greywalker", "Poltergeist" and "Underground" and I've really enjoyed them. Sara and her not so fictional ferrets [Posted in FML 6323]