I have to wholeheartedly agree with Debbie, Jeanne, and Pat -- muzzles can *only* exacerbate an already shaky (albeit unfair) image. If you have a ferret who bites, it doesn't belong around strangers. There have to be other ways to get it used to strange situations -- try friends you trust to understand, or perhaps a local ferret club if there is one. Anyone who sees a ferret with a muzzle and doesn't know ferrets is *bound* to make the logical leap that they must be viscious, and we don't need any help with *that* assumption. I really think it would be best to find another way to control our more rambunctious fuzzies. Besides I can't imagine it's necessary -- the place you probably see muzzles used the most (besides the groomer's) is the vet's. And every ferret vet I've ever known has said they have never been attacked by a ferret. Only one I know has even been seriously bitten by a ferret, and that by a ferret in a hypoglycemic trance -- poor thing had no clue what he was doing and practically apologized when he came to. I can see very little positive about, and very little need for a ferret muzzle. Laura [Posted in FML issue 1155]