This is all rather odd when you think about it, it is still about 80-90 degrees every day here and we are discussing Christmas trees. I actually envy Urban having his heat turned on, I love winter. Anyway, our cats eat tinsel every year with no ill effects, except the tendency to trail there litter box leavings out of the box every now and then, i.e. the tinsel passes right through. We do use the new plastic tinsel though and have avoided the now unavailable lead tinsel which we have a stock-pile of and will probably never use. Too many animals (including Ian). I assume it will pass through a ferret as well, string does as I know by accident. Whoever wrote that cat toys were not tough enough for ferrets was right! We all hope Keesa is doing well and continues to recover with great speed Mike, Erica, Ian, Inigo, Buttercup... [Posted in FML issue 0574]