Thank you for your lovely compliments, Chere! And as someone who has met you on a couple of occasions, I can assure the rest of the FML that I know you have it backwards - I know the hard work you have done yourself. Andi, yes, I have 3 ferrets which are officially mine - BeBee (BB, for Big Boy), Sophie and Nellie. But the actual number of ferrets in the house at any given point varies quite a bit depending on ferret-sitting and vistors. And while I'm responding to you anyhow, there are many commercial products to deal with skunk odor but washing in tomato juice is supposedly one of the best and least expensive solutions. I don't know what product to use to get rid of the tomato juice smell however. As to posting more here - probably the biggest regret I have about moderating the FML is that doing so leaves me a lot less time to actually post! But now and then I speak up, as many of you know. In the end, I kind of lump it all together. Many of us do different things to help "the state of ferrets" in the world and taken all together it's really quite impressive, I think. I'm amazed at all the effort and talents that so many of you give for our fuzzbeans... it makes me proud to be associated even in a small way. (Maybe next we can talk to the federal government about this little budget problem they're having.... :-)) Bill [Posted in FML issue 1383]