Hello all - its been a while since I posted, so I thought I would share a few cute Slinky stories. Poor slink nearly had a nervous breakdown this weekend. We went and painted our boat friday, and I came home covered with a generous coating of blue copper paint. I took a long shower to remove the nasty stuff, then cleaned the tub with Comet to get the redisue off the tub - and the drain clogged. Liquid plummer did nothing. Of course, this was friday evening, and I couldn't get a plummer in until this (monday) AM. Since the tub was covered in gross stuff, I kept Slinky out all weekend by closing the door. Talk about a depressed ferret! He kept going over to see if it was still closed... This AM, however, it was fixed. Talk about a happy ferret - he jumped into the shower with me four times (I gave up lifting him out after that). I guess he must know dad does research on aquatic animals and you know how ferrets want to be included in everything... Also - he has gotten upset several times when I was cooking (he is much too small to reach the kitchen counter (thank god!!)). Last week I was making a chinese dish and kept cutting things up, and throwing parts out. The kitchen garbage is much too tall for him to reach. Much to my amazement, he turned, jumped onto the Leila's (the cat) litter box, from there leaped 1.5 feet to the kitchen table, dropped down onto a chair, from which he could barely jump and catch the lip of the garbage. My ferret was badly named - he should have been Rube Goldberg - amazing. As far as stealing things, he usually goes for the normal, but he has taken quite an affection to my snorkel mask and snorkel. Since a young California Sea Lion also tried to steal it several weeks ago, I think I now have a snorkel with more carnibore tooth scars on it than anyone else... Have fun y'all! Best - Mason, Slinky, and Leila (the cat who really doesn't get all this fuss over the tub - its water (YUCH!). [Posted in FML issue 0783]