After reading Mark Schafer's post, I thought it a good time to post that Goose (6 yr. old male DEW), who had his left adrenal removed on 9/5, is pretty much back to himself, well, with a little less hair and still some stitches. We realized he was getting better Sunday night, when he escaped twice from the "recovery cage" and then woke us up at 6 am going for a third! Amazing how fast they recover. Anyway, he & his sister are reunited & happier, though Annie's been a bit of a behavior problem lately (okay, a bit more than *usual*). In addition to getting on desks and bureaus and knocking stuff (papers, water, answering machine) to the floor, a habit she had dropped for a while, she's been pooping in front of the bedroom door. Not real easy to keep a towel there, as the door opens in and it's in a corner. We may have to resort to restricting her space for a while (and yes, they also know how to fake using the litter box, assuming the position and all! :( To Rick Beveridge, I have no experience in this (extremely allergic to cats :( but I would think that a 3-month old kitten and a ferret would be a good match, and the kitten should be adaptable at that age. The ferret may have to learn that kitten's don't have leather jackets :) but after a while I suspect the kitten may start behaving suspiciously like a ferret! :) F.E.R.R.E.T. missiles have been spotted on training maneuvers in Gloucester County, NJ. Intelligence reports indicate that they have progressed to training with SOCK (Silent On-foot Cotton Knit) targets. I've spoken with some of the recon pilots flying out of the airbase here at the Tech Center, and they indicate that not only is the previous report true, but they believe that, when stored in groups, these missiles can actually program each other!! Thus, a previously harmless FERRET can, within weeks or even days, become an expert SOCK destroyer following introduction to another of its kind. Particularly devastating is the new ANASTASIA model, while the older GOOSE model seems to be too set in its ways to accept the new programming, and is thus classed as "Mostly Harmless" ;) Two other items, I mentioned Annie's forays on the desk, she seems to have appropriated and hidden the coupon book for Kim's student loan!! I can see this phone conversation: "Yes, I know we've only had it for a month...well, yes, I've looked...well, you see, umm, uhh, the fact of the matter is, uhhh, my ferret stole it... yes, ferret....*ferret*, F-E-R-R-E-T,...yes, *stole* it, well, borrowed it at least......" =) The other is Goose's favorite new toy...a feather duster!!! He seems to like toys that are bigger than him, it's a riot watching him carry this thing around, with his nose pointed in the air, strutting, then struggling to get it in back of the furniture and into his "stash-corner"... -- Ed Atlee ([log in to unmask]) Ed, Kim, Goose (feather dusters!!!), Anastasia (SOCKs!!!), and Maggie the Labrador (a dog is *NOTHING LIKE* a cow, just keep training with socks!) [Posted in FML issue 1314]