Hi all! Responding to previous posts... Darel and Susan--Beckett recently discovered ping-pong balls, and seems to like them *a lot*! She's never been exposed to golf balls, but just loves to push the ping-pong variety around for hours. They're great: light enough that she won't dent or hurt anything (or herself) with them, and big enough that she can't chew them up. Hours of ferret fun! Sergej--I initially had a tough time getting Beckett to "pass out" by way of scruffing, but have found that if I hold her for a brief while she will calm down eventually and just hang there. It makes ear cleaning a *lot* easier. She will occasionally jerk around a bit, but in my experience the patience spent waiting for the "passout" pays off in the end; get a fair amount of skin when you pick your carpet shark up... Ross. [Posted in FML issue 0600]