>What household item has become your ferrets favorite toy? > >Masked ferret owner in CA Two of our first ferrets were a girl and boy, Miss Mabel and Freddie. My wife taught a class for nursing assistants and brought home a rubber chicken that she used to threaten the students with. Well, Freddie would carry off this rubber chicken into our office and five minutes later Mabel would drag it back to its original spot. Back and forth, back and forth. We had another little girl named Sophie who stole the porcelain caps that covered the bolts that held the toilet to the floor. Nowadays they're plastic but a few years back they were filled with putty and quite heavy. Didn't stop Sophie. We called them her toilet mints. We've got a petite little one and a half pound girl named Cora who just loves to steal my wife's long aluminum and plastic reacher (Linda has MS) so we have to put that up out of the way now. She also is partial (Cora, not Linda) to hiding the large, heavy dog-grooming brush. Our newest adoptee, a big fuzzy grey boy named Moose hides a lotion dispenser and the rolls of plastic dog poop bags that we keep in the utility cupboard. But none of them have ever played with anything unusual. I don't think "unusual" is in a ferret's vocabulary. [Posted in FML 6809]