>"I now know there are only two kinds of ferret owners.... those that >have experienced a accident, and those that will. Little comfort I >know, but there are too many of us that share your grief...." > Ardith Thank you so much Ardith. I am trying to push the painful memory of Ali's death away and just remember her sweetness, her constant talking as she went about her day and her love for her cagemate Pearl. Poor Pearl stopped eating and started to lose weight in just the short time Ali has been gone. Yesterday my daughter Mary and I put the large group of 6 ferrets in the outside pen (neutral territory) and placed Pearl in with them. They immediately over whelmed her....sniffing and grooming. Moxie pinned her to the decking and cleaned her ears. Hero groomed her head. Precious and Isabelle sniffed and cleaned the rest of her. Parker and Stewie looked at me as if to say "Ya they did the same thing to us when we joined the group! " When Ali was throughly clean and the group wandered off to play in the mound of hay (this year's idea for enrichment) , she looked up at me with a look of awe on her pretty little face. That night she slept in her own cage. Today they were re-introduced in the house and now Ali is fast asleep with her new friends in their cage. Ferrets are so amazing! Nancy and her 15 [Posted in FML 7123]