Dear Ferret Folks- Little Caff-Pow is three months old this week, and something um... well...How to say it? It should be easy, I am completely tactless and everybody knows it.... OK. Let's just go for it. Caff-Pow has tiny little nads, now. They showed up this week. Little nads shaped like tiny peas, covered in soft gray fur. I understand that they will get bigger, but regardless of their ultimate configuration I know their fate. Caff-Pow, bud...you have three months, ninety more days to enjoy those. After that the only way you will be able to keep them is if the vet sends them home in a jar with you. Is it the little nads that make you such a *maniac*, little buddy? Is that why you defy gravity and drag Todd around and terrify the cat? I think that you could make noise in space. Is that why tonight when I was on the throne you had the, well, the *nads* to leap into my *lap*? I was displeased, strongly displeased, young sir. Over the last decade I have become used to sharing my toilet habits with weasels against my will. (They should make bathroom doors out of that stuff they make avation "Black Boxes" out of!) But NO Ferret has ever done THAT before. (Shudder...!...) I sat there (helpless) and saw Caff-Pow ready himself for the leap up to my lap. He sailed through the air like a little five-pointed star fish, four limbs and a tail, pink mouth open to display fangage. And he had such a happy look on his little possum face when he landed the leap sucessfully. His whole demeanour radiated joy, health, and vitality. Treasure those moments, little buddy. The clock is ticking. Alexandra in MA Todd: "Snicker-snicker-snicker!" Caff-Pow: "Whu?..." [P.S.] While I was typing my longer post I heard a strange noise. *Someone* was using the toilet bowl for his own personal Jacuzzi. I've had ONE whole hob in my life. *One* He is the only ferret I have ever had that mistook himself for a toilet brush. He has problems with the whole "Seat Up/Seat Down" conflict, too. Ninety days and counting. Alexandra in MA Todd:<Rolling eyes> Caff-Pow: "Whu?" [Posted in FML 6357]