Anyone who has had a ferret knows they love to stash objects: bits of food, toys, socks, basically whatever they can get their teeth on and quickly carry away. Binky has carried this to the extreme. She started out harmless enough: her small squeeky toys, or the cat's larger plush toys, but these objects only whetted her appetite for stashing objects. Next, she moved up to underwear (mostly Elayne's, my SO) dish-towels, and shoes, but these objects required more space than her old hidey-holes, so she claimed the covered cat-beds, much to the chagrin of our 3 cats. Ah, but now her little "habit" has become a full-blown addiction. She pulls sweaters and jackets off of chairs and stuffs them under the futons. She hauls our heavy hiking boots behind the toilet. She manages to jump up and grab onto the bath towels in the bathroom, pull them down, then wedge them in the gap under the linen closet door (often blocking off her escape from the closet). Last week I realized that she needed help. She had hauled a throw rug (6' by 6') from the front room and stuffed it into her and Moki's cage. Moki, who had often looked on in mild amusement at Binky's previous accomplishments, is now fairly annoyed at her cage-mate, and we suspect if she were capable of using the phone, would have committed Binky to Betty Ford by now. Any hints on how to tone down her pack-rat habit? Leonard Bottleman [Posted in FML issue 0607]