My husband and I own two female ferrets, Tica, who we got in January, and Mole', who we added to our family about a month ago. We were already when we added Mole' to be protecting her from Tica, but instead Mole' has become the dominant ferret (even though she is 1/2 the size of Tica). No blood has ever been drawn, and neither one of them has ever screamed. Lately Tica has started to wrestle back and will even initiate the wrestling match, which is always accompanied by lots of dooking, and occasionally one of them will hiss (usually Tica). A few nights ago we caught them using the same water bottle at the same time. So we figured that they would want to sleep together, but no go so far. We were wondering if we should just wait till nature takes it's course and hope that they are willing to sleep together soon, or if we should "encourage" them to share a cage. Last week we put both of them in the same cage when it was bed time (then kept a watchful eye on them to see if it would work). Tica got in the hammock and prepared to sleep, then Mole' decided that she wanted to sleep in the hamock, so she got in there and basically bit and grabbed at Tica until she left the hamock (no screaming, just hissing). Before Tica left the hammockshe licked Mole' head, in what looked to us to be a sweet way (not to anthropomorphize or anything :)). Then went to the lower story to be let out, which we did and put her in the other cage. They question is: Should we repeat the cage combonation so they get the idea that being in the same cage is normal, or should we wait to do that till we catch them sleeping together before we combine them? Thanks for putting up with my long post. -E.C. and Joe -- Erika C. Shugart Department of Biology [log in to unmask] University of Virginia [Posted in FML issue 1224]