Hi Jill, We're pretty sure all three of our ferrets are flea-free, but all of them will suddenly wake up and scratch themselves so vigorously that they fall out of bed and thump onto the floor, without missing a beat. It's pretty hilarious to watch. They'll also be rocketing across a room, then just suddenly flop over and scratch madly, maybe once with a leg and then whip around and bite from both sides, then get back up and resume rocketing. I'd say this happens in the tens of times per day. All our ferrets get Purina Ferret Chow or Science Diet Kitten, plus Ferretone and the occasional additional foods that they each especially like (broccoli, m&m's, dried fruit, bean burrito, etc.), and their coats are all beautiful, so I don't think that's our problem either. Recently, they've only been bathed every several weeks, although bathing them every other day like we used to doesn't seem to make any difference. We've been told by a (in our opinion very knowledgeable) ferret shelter operator and breeder that ferrets are just itchy little animals. On the other hand, a lot of his ferrets have fleas. Anyway, I think we either both have a bunch of schizo ferrets or this is pretty normal behavior. Ed, and Fang, Flash, and Beauty (not our real names, of course!) [Posted in FML issue 0622]