To Dave Hinz: Ferret toys? Well, ferrets can make almost anything into a toy. Paper bags & plastic bags are favorites, because they make crinkly noises. The only plastic bags we let ours have are the ones we get at the grocery store -- never dry-cleaning bags! They also insist that shoes should NOT have insoles in them, and will systematically pull them all out. Bandit will drag away any leather sneakers & gloves he can get his paws on. Cardboard tubes are also good, and we have friends who got one of those plastic dryer hoses for their ferrets. Those big plastic barrel-shaped containers for hard pretzels is another thing they like -- one will climb in it & "defend" it from all comers. They also like to roll it around. They love playing in a box of styrofoam peanuts but we stopped letting them play with those because we're afraid of them chewing & swallowing the pieces. That's all I can think of at the moment. I'll look around the house tonight & see what else they play with. Katie, Jeff, Bandit, Molly, Charlie & Pogo [Posted in FML issue 0305]