Attention all Ferret Fanciers, Well, on Tuesday, a sad thing happened. You see, for the past two months or so, I have been babysitting a ferret for a friend who coulden't figure out how to fly back to school with his ferret. Actually, his name is Chris Carda, and he's on the FML too (Hi Chris!). So Ceili (owns me) and Clover (owns Chris) had a really nice time together for a while- they snuggled and played and got into trouble (lots of trouble :) ) and ate (especially Clover, whom we re-christened Marge, after Large Marge in Pee-Wee's Big Adventure) and generally enjoyed each other's company. Heres the rub, however. Since Clover left, Ceili has gone into a bit of a slump. I think she misses her friend, and I don't really know exactally what to do about it. She is pretty normally active when she is awake, but the thing is she sleeps much more than she had been. Is this O.K? I wish I could entertain her, but I am in classes and at work all day. When I'm home in the evenings and at night, I play with her as much as she wants to be played with, but I'm afraid the sad truth is that I can't possibly be as good company as another ferret. I also would be foolish to buy a ferret friend for Ceili- it's arguably irresponsable for me to even own one, living in a FFZ as I do. She still likes the dryer hose, though! Ethan and Ceili (who says "I wonder what happened to that other slinky, furry thing that I used to run around with?") [Posted in FML issue 0754]