Hi there! As a new ferret owner, I'd like to know what your ferret's favourite toys are; we are always on the lookout for something new that's fun. Maddy loves those rubber squeaky toys, especially the soccer balls and the small red dinosaur. She'll play with them, then nab them and scurry off to hide them in a corner! Last night she was busy running from one end of the house to the other, hiding her treasures in the safest places she could find. Is this typical ferret behaviour? It's certainly a panic to watch, especially when that damn dinosaur escapes half way, which drives her mental. She likes playing with balls, and yesterday I picked the last of my tomatoes. I put a cherry tomato on the floor for her, and she loved it! It made a great ball, and then she discovered that it was an edible sort of ball, and had a couple of nibbles. Had to watch her with it, though, as she decided it was a treasure, and carted it off to hide it in a distant corner. A few days ago we found a toy called "Cat Dancer" at the local pet shop. (Bosley's on Davie, for those of you in the Vancouver area.) It's a piece of wire with some small bits of who-knows-what tied to one end. Bounces! Jiggles! She'll chase it for hours, and (due to the bounciness of it) the human can be fairly lazy and just watch the fuzzit dance. Worth every penny. We also got a cardboard toy called Bizzy Kitty. It's a box with lots of holes in it, so that cats can poke their paws in the hole and chase whatever toy is inside. The idea is that the kitty can't get inside, so cats keep busy there for hours. I enlarged two of the holes so that Maddy can get in, and she sometimes likes to play around inside the box. And she's done the "arm through the hole" cat trick a couple of times, too, although it certainly doesn't captivate her the way the Cat Dancer does. We'll have to see how much appeal this toy has over the long term. So, what toys do your fuzzits like best? Christine and a very bouncy Madeline -- Christine Code We shall find peace. Vancouver, CANADA We shall hear the angels, [log in to unmask] We shall see the sky http://www2.portal.ca/~cmc Sparkling with diamonds. - Chekhov [Posted in FML issue 1332]