Deva, that is hilarious. I know all fuzzies, cats, and dogs are all as different as people. Some are avid hunters. And the rest...well, you saw for yourself! We often took in rats; the ones who hid in the closet, I would send in motherly Lucy to get out. She would scruff them, and drag them out for me. We had a rabbit once; one ferret would herd it out for us. But mice... We had a mouse escape one time (it was supposed to be unable to get out, the bars were very small and only on the top of the cage, so how it escaped being paralyzed in the back legs, we still do not know). However, I have avid "mousers", the ones that will chase a ball on a string, hurling themselves at it, calculating, grabbing it with their paws, and biting it a few times. I found the mouse in the cage - there was barely a mark on it - but it was clearly dead. It had been tucked under a blankie. I've found that only about 2 out of 10 ferrets are actually "mousers", the rest really don't care (just my experience). I'd also like to say that rats are completely different - they only would go after rats who were afraid of them, and only when the rat attacked them, would the mousers fight back - they didn't see them as mice at all. One hairless rat would often annoy them by sneaking into the cage and grooming them incessantly - she wanted to play with them and would also run with them, but we had to stop her because she would get scratches, being hairless. L [Posted in FML 6905]