Subject: Ferret Noises My ferret (female - 4 months old) is fairly quiet. When she gets real excited, sometimes makes a little squeak/dook-dook sound. However, soon after we got her, before I got the bedding I use now, I had just gotten a cage and was going to put newspapers in it. She was in the cage. I was unfolding and crinkling the paper and proceeded to stuff it into the cage. Apparently from her viewpoint, she saw a loud mass of shaking, scary paper coming at her and her trapped in the cage. She reared up on her hind legs and gave a kind of high-pitched Ark! Ark! sound. Never heard it since. Matter of fact, now we play by rattling paper and she wags her tail, gets down and then runs and jump/attacks it. At the time, it really startled me (that "bark" and thinking I had scared the little baby like that!) Immediately, I gently picked her up and held her. She didn't bite me or anything. No permanent psychological scars, I guess. <g> Afterward, it struck me as funny. This tiny baby ferret bravely standing up to the paper-monster. I guess I know that if I ever hear that sound again, it's something to immediately check out! Another noise story. Last night I was watching TV, thought she was asleep. I heard this little high-pitched "Wheee!", went up in pitch at the end. After a moment of wonder since I had never heard that kind of sound from her, I realized she must have gotten some gas from that tiny piece of Pizza Hut we shared earlier that evening. BTW, she *was* asleep. Made it even more humorous. <g> Jon Hagee Lexington, KY KY Explorer BBS [Posted in FML issue 1084]