As many here know, when I was putting myself through school decades ago I worked w a range of primates (chimps and gibbons for the apes, a loris and lemurs for the prosimians, and a wide range of New World primates, as well as meeting but not working daily with a number of other primates) and was planning on going into primatology before I got sick over thirty years ago (with 3 things at once -- lost 1/3 of one breast, a neuromuscular disease, and from the physical stress the onset of allergies so severe that I wound up in the hospital) and had to cut short w a bachelors and some grad classes. So, even after this time primates are often on my mind, and I do missing working them despite still having a lot of scars which have not faded away and even though my current vision would now make it unsafe for most species. Anyway, Kessy is turning out to be a world class ferret climber and jumper. She is right up there with the best ones we have had on that regard in our thirty plus years with ferrets. As a result today I called her a "little monkey". From the LR Steve called in, "Monkeys respect gravity. Kessy is post-monkey!" So, that is who she is now: Keskittää the post-monkey ferret. How many here have post-monkey ferret stories to share on climbing and jumping? They are always fun and right now that would be good. Sukie (not a vet) Ferrets make the world a game. Recommended ferret health links: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/ http://ferrethealth.org/archive/ 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) A nation is as free as the least within it. [Posted in FML 7617]