June 1991, my son had always wanted a ferret but I refused. I believed the horror stories I'd heard and was afraid it would kill my cat. Mike was getting ready for college when he came home from shopping carrying a small box with airholes. Inside was this tiny sable ferret and thus ferrets entered our household. He got her as a dorm pet and asked if she could stay until college started. He named her Lillian Marie since he said she was such a perfect lady. He soon realized she would not be safe in a dorm room but by then my husband and I had fallen hopelessly in love with her anyway. A year later a pretty silver girl, Sylvia Leila joined her and so our ferret saga began. [Posted in FML 8178]