I'm kind of behind, but I'd like to thank everyone who gave me information about getting rid of Stinky's fleas! I'm gonna try all the suggestions that were given to me in public and private and hopefully those buggers will never show again! To the person who lost their ferret: you have my condolences along with everyone else's. Maybe somebody found him, you never know. That's how I got Stinky. My friends sister just found him on the street, lost and hungry, hair all ratty, a little on the mal-nutritioned side. She didn't know if he belonged to anyone or not, there wasn't a collar or anything. And I guess she didn't do enough to find out if there was an owner either. All I know is that I ended up with him, fed him, got him descented and neutered, and I've had this beautiful fat fluffy black eyed albino for a little over a year! I just hope I didn 't bring too much hearbreak for whoever had him before me. I do know that I'm REALLY paranoid and overprotective when it comes to knowing where he is at all times (considering the circumstances in which I got him in the first place). I always check to see where's he's sleeping before I leave the house, check to make sure the door is locked, twice, and right when I get home I make sure the front door is locked again, and that Stinky is safe and sound. There have been a few times that he's found a new hiding place that I couldn't find and I'd just go crazy for hours looking for him and not finding him! Then I'd cry and think that maybe he got out the door (it doesn't always close right so I use the boltlock but my father doesn't) but then lil' Stinky would come out to eat/play/poop not knowing that I was even worried about the little rat! And what a rat he is. He digs his front paws into his food dish and makes the food fly all over the place. He's been doing this forever and there doesn't seem to be anything I can do to stop it. He also does this little dance number before drinking out of his water bottle, and I know it's because he doesn't like the height its at, but no matter how much I adjust it he still dances and scratches at the floor in front of the bottle and boots himself up by plunking his tiny claws into the food dish. Is there a remedy for this? If I'm there I'll kind of glare at him and he'll keep looking back at me, and sort of behave, but when I'm not around, well, let's just say there's no carpet on my bedroom floor and I've had a lot of kitty litter stick'n to my feet! Mostly it annoys me when I'm trying to sleep at all of the sudden I hear this loud crunchy/scratchy sound coming from his food dish, and I'm really grouchy when I'm tired! And another thing, I know ferrets are near-sighted, but Stinky seems to have NOW-sighted. He'll run towards his newspaper (never could littler train him), and when he has it within his sight, he'll do that his little acrobatic 90 degree acrobatic ferret flip and back up 2 inches, but he's still 2 feet away from the damn paper! Erf! Sometimes he's good and he'll do it right, but you never know. Marilyn Caylor [Posted in FML issue 1059]