I'm glad to hear that so far, your interspecies meeting have gone well. I would advise extreme caution for a while. It appears from the fml that many cats get along great with ferrets; this is the case with a good friend of mine. However, my roomate brought her cat home (from her parents house) to visit a couple of weeks ago. We figured that all would be fine, as _Ionie_ had a ferret playmate when she was a kitten. Everything appeared to be going well. I was watching them play (actually, Finn was playing by himself & the cat was just watching, fascinated). Well, Ionie took a swipe a Finn, who promptly beat a hasty retreat under the bed. He was dooking & chuckling like mad, so figured they were having a great time. I extricated Finn from under the bed, (now I wanted to play, too!) & when I looked at his face, they was only a bloody gash where his eye used to be. I promptly kicked the cat (sorry, feline lovers, but I was temporarily insane) & called the vet. His eyeball wasn't missing, as I first had thought. The cat had scratched his third eyelid & his cornea rather badly. All's well that ends well, though - we did not have to do corrective surgery (whew!) however, he will probably have a scar on his eyeball. I think the next time Finn meets a cat, It will be closely supervised & no free roaming for several weeks (just to be safe)! Good Luck! Elfyr & Finnegan (cats? I don't like cats very much.) [Posted in FML issue 1193]