We have been reading the wonderful messages you all have left for a while now. These messages have caused much laughter as well as tears for us. A brief introduction to our family: Dean and Chelli are owned by four ferrets, three dogs, a cat, salt fish, and two kids. Taz is the king of the bunch. Buttons is the queen (thief). Sadie is blind but by watching her get along through the house, you would never know. Sadie's improvement is remarkable considering the fact that her seeing-eye ferret, Cindy, dissappeared on us about three weeks ago. Sadie was having trouble getting along with the rest of the busyness, but finally, joining the rather large sleeping-fur-ball pile in the bottom of the ferret mansion. This brings us to Gizmo. Gizmo is just a baby (7 weeks). He is such a sight to watch as he chases our 65 lb dog around. Not much else to say but thanks to everyone's stories. They have given us many ideas and much knowledge for us, fairly green, ferret- slaves. All of our little babies seem to get along except for Taz seems to bully Gizmo (Baby). I've read that this will soon stop when the baby starts to mellow out. It is a matter of concern because Gizmo is very vocal where Taz, Buttons, and Sadie are very quiet creatures, hardly ever making a sound. Thanks so much, Dean, Chelli, Kris, Amanda, (Kids) Brandy, Sissy, Tiffani,(Dogs) Harry, (Cat) The sock thieves, and the fish. [Posted in FML issue 1103]