I know that everybody is worried about their ferrets possibly getting this mystery virus (or whatever it is), but somebody yesterday posted a message saying that all people talk about these days is bad things related to ferrets, and I think it's time to change that. So, here's a story about why my middle ferret, Baby, got her name changed to Boxhead Baby. Here goes: The first apartment that we lived in was a one bedroom apartment, so the ferrets had free rein over the entire place. Luckily, we only had two ferrets at that time. Of course, as you all know, ferrets believe that there are mysterious doors to another world behind the books on your bookcase, the CDs and records on their shelf, and the most special doors are usually found behind videotapes on the bottom shelves of bookcases. That's where mine always looked. I always tried to wedge in one extra videotape so that the tapes would be too tight for the ferrets to move, but when they worked at it, and they always did, they could pull all of the videotapes out and play with them on the floor. We came home from work one day to the sound of ferrets scrapping. You know, the chirping and clucking, and the sound of things (usually ferrets heads) banging into something. By the way, have you ever noticed that ferrets' head's sound like wood when they hit floors or doors, but, I digress. Anyway, we love watching this fighting, but there was Bear, our oldest ferret, just waking up, and sitting on the sofa. So, Baby must have been fighting with herself. Nothing strange, as she is a bit slow, and if a towel falls on her, will think it's attacking and continually pounce on it. I love to watch my ferrets playing, so I went to look for Baby, noticing that once again, they had pulled the videotapes off of the shelf, and this time, they had also pulled some of the videotapes out of their boxes. I also noticed that one of the boxes was missing, which meant that one of the ferrets must have pulled it away with them. O.K., Baby really sounded like she was having a good time, clucking and chirping really loudly in the bedroom. So, I went into the bedroom, only to see Baby run through my legs and into the wall. She wasn't actually having a good time though, as she had one of the videotape boxes stuck over her head. She must have stuck her face into the box really far to see what ws in the bottom, and then got stuck. It was funny to look at, but she was pissed. She also was having a very difficult time trying to get it off. Well, at this point Bear came over to investigate, and I took the box off of Baby's head. Baby was so confused, annoyed, embarrased (?) that she instantly attacked Bear and they had a rousing game of chase me around the house. Thus the name Boxhead Baby. Please send some funny ferret stories. Bill, Bear, Baby, and Kodi [Posted in FML issue 0453]