Hi Guys, I know its been a while since I've contributed anything to the FML, but Fi-Fi and I read it every day, (sound of mouse crashing to floor again!!). I have a couple of fun stories to tell tho' so I thought I best get the old word processor fired up. Firstly we have a new ferret toy, it is called a Looney Ball! It looks like a rubber land mine, about four inches in diameter. It has two AA batteries in it, and when switched on it bounces across the room and off anything it hits :) Fi-Fi chases it around in a totally manic ferret manner, occasionally she gets hold of it by one of the rubber "protrusions" and she starts shaking and bouncing across the floor as if she is part of the ball! She gets extremely pissed off that she can't drag it in behind the stove where everything else from socks to breadcrusts end up! The second story is her latest kill! now it wasn't a cow :) nor was it a rabbit, but it was a very ugly, very large, very fast, turbocharged, six leg-drive, mutant cockroach! Yep come summer time in perth we get some beauties come up out of the caves or wherever they hide. They are so big that I normally set bear traps for them! Anyway we have had a few days over 100 deg. and that always brings them out of the wood work. Fi-Fi spotted this leviathan insect in the kitchen and spent the next 30 seconds running it down on the kitchen floor, it was a bit like a speedway race, a lot of wheelspin and opposite lock. She finally caught it and dragged it off with great pride behind the stove :) She did let it go a couple of times just so she could show Dad what an accomplished hunter she is! Hi to everyone on the FML, a big thanks to Bill Gruber, who does such an excellent job on the FML, and also to Dr Williams, who looks after the health interests of our carpet sharks so selflessly. P.S. Dr Williams, if you have a moment could you please email me with an outline of the possible problems with the distemper vaccines, I have a friend who is a vet here and she does quite a lot of ferret work, she is very interested to recieve any info. Regards, Rick (have you seen my socks, dear?) Michelle (they were there a moment ago.) Tess (..one day, Fi-FI, when they're not looking....) Fi-Fi, Pest Exterminator, (I will kill that bloody looney ball, yes I will.) [Posted in FML issue 1101]