To Mary at Modern Ferret: while our fuzzies are indifferent to many of their toys, they each occasionally pick one that is "theirs" and do much the same as yours, i.e., hide it, dig it out once in a while, run around the room with it, and run & hide if they see you coming! For Anastasia, it's a cloth-catnip mouse with a bell; Goose had one that sounds like the same exact thing as your Ralph's, but lately he's fixated on another cat toy; a carpeted board, from which two plastic rings are suspended from long springs that stick straight up in the air. It's rather large and awkward, and watching him drag it around and struggle to get it under the furniture is hilarious! BTW, they too do the front-paw-drag-thing with balls and even other toys. ----Ed, Kim, Goose and Annie [Posted in FML issue 1191]