The animals are obviously very comfortable with their trainers. As others have pointed out, ferrets have minds enough of their own that if their living situation were a bad one with those people or if the act was normally painful that they would run away after the drop instead of staying with one person and heading toward the other. Did something go wrong in the older video from 2000? It appears that way. Was it corrected by 2008? It appears that way. Is it entirely possible that the coat and the pelt are actually artificial? It sure appears that way from the flexibility. Are these people shorter than average, which reduces the drop? It appears that way. Now, something possibly went wrong vey publicly in 2000 (corrected later) but the ferret still return to their trainers. How many of us have had something go wrong with out ferrets such as them climbing to a spot they should not have reached, or making a jump they should not have made? Did your ferrets know that you were the one to return to when that happened as these ferrets did? There seem to be more similarities with good homes here than not in the way the ferrets go to their people, and that level of comfort with their people says a lot to me personally, but what do i know (?) since i only have 30 years of experience with ferrets... Sukie (not a vet) Recommended ferret health links: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/ http://ferrethealth.org/archive/ http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html http://www.miamiferret.org/ http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/ http://www.ferretcongress.org/ http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html all ferret topics: http://listserv.ferretmailinglist.org/archives/ferret-search.html "All hail the procrastinators for they shall rule the world tomorrow." (2010, Steve Crandall) [Posted in FML 7018]