Our Cocoa, pound-and-a-half female, can actually climb a brick wall, slowly, but straight up. Our ferrets live in a small room off the kitchen, an addition with windows and a door on three walls, but the original outside wall is brick. We took out the door and replaced it with a 2 ft. boys [sic] contained, but when we got Cocoa and she grew up a little, she started climbing the bricks, shifting over to the gate, and jumping over. It took about a week to figure out wooden barriers to stop her. A while ago she got ahold of a crayon and for a day she passed the most beautiful, bright blue stools! She seems fine. Any idea if there could be any lasting effects? We think she ate the whole thing. Stan Terrie & Jen, Mookie, Psycho, Cecil & Cocoa in Toronto [Posted in FML issue 1248]