Al, In my group of friends we call a group of ferrets a "chaos" for obvious reasons. A friend who had 4 furries even came up with an equation to describe how you can quantify ferret chaos. I can't remember it exactly, but it's an exponential progression whereby you get one ferret's worth of destruction from one ferret and two from two, but by the time you get to four ferrets, you're getting eight ferret's worth of destruction. That meant that even if he had all four caged when he was out, there were still four "virtual ferrets" wreaking havok. I just love the thought of invisible ferrets knocking stuff off bookshelves and hiding socks. Wendy ******************************************************************************* Wendy Hudson [log in to unmask] The clan: Lloyd (husband) Maggie (english springer spaniel) Friday and Marcus (cats) Silk (ferret) Fletcher (bird) [Posted in FML issue 0840]