Hello out there, fellow fuzzie-lovers! Having just become the proud possession of two house-weasels, a male-female (fixed) pair about three years old, I needed names for them. I finally settled on Frank, as in Frank James, for the big male albino ferret, and Jesse, as in you-guessed-it, for the smaller female sable one -- for the obvious reason. I am now thinking of renaming them Houdini and Thurston -- for the obvious reason. Can anyone out there tell me: will this improve matters, or otherwise? I also think I've found out something about a ferret's rather interesting sense of humor. Yesterday morning, when I got up, I found that _somebody_ had taken _one_ of my pair of zoris, which are my only house-slippers, and (as I found after a long search) pulled it clear up under my futon-frame, where it was completely concealed by futon and covers, so that I had to pull up the whole end of the bed to get at it and retrieve it. Okay. This morning, I woke up, and again one of my zoris was not where I had left it last night. I found it -- you guessed it -- in about the same place under the futon I had yesterday when I went looking for it. There is also the toilet-bowl brush that hangs -- sometimes! -- by a nail low on the wall next to the toilet in the bathroom. That it doesn't stay there _all_ the time is due to the efforts of Frank, who seems to determined to get that thing _off_ that nail and _keep_ it off ... especially right after I've put it back _on_ again. Clearly they do have a sense of humor. Can anyone tell me more about it, and what I'll have to deal with, maybe, as a result of it? Actually, in just 5 days they've made me laugh so many times, so hard, that I feel better now than I have in several years, so none of the above is a minus. On the contrary. But I'd love to hear more about weasel behavior and psychology. Anybody got any stories? Thanks, Yael Dragwyla [Posted in FML issue 0762]