Dear all, Apologies for lurking for so long. Just an addendum to the ferret smell/descenting debate. My family has two ferrets (Bradley, an albino and Pigling a polecat-ferret). Last year when my father was trying (not very hard) to sell his house to pay off his divorce settlement; he used to let the boys run around the house directly before a prospective buyer was due to visit...... It was two years before the house was sold. Cheers. Sarah. [Posted in FML issue 1151]