I have temporarily given up on bathtime for the time being. Periscope has never been terrific about baths. In the summer when my roommate had the big boy Hobbes, he loved the bath and so i think it kind of rubbed off on Periscope, although she would want to get out way earlier. Then we got Cookie... Later in the summer, I was at our island and there are a lot of small rocks around the island. My father was standing on one of the rocks and I was on the shore and he would put Periscope and Cookie in the little (2 feet wide) channal between the rock and me and they would swim to me. (great swimmers). Well I guess one time Cookie had just had enough, or she got startled or something and she did "the scream". You know the scary ferret scream that sounds like a baby or something. I'd never heard it before and was so frightened. I felt terrible! Well I tried giving Cookie a bath about a month ago and she did the scream then too, which scared the hell out of everyone in the house. Then she climbed up my arm (ow!) and clung to my shoulder and would *not* let go. This freaked Periscope out too and immediatly she wanted to get out. About 2 weeks later I was bringing Cookie into the bathroom to clip her nails (which she is fine about as long as she has ferretone on the tummy). As soon as she saw the bathroom, she screamed and climbed up my arm again. Now she won't even go in there! I guess its ok to ease up on the baths. They don't smell bad (to me anyway :)) and if they do i just spritz on a little "ferret fresh". I would do anything to avoid "the scream" :) Marianne w/ cookie and periscope in toronto ************************************** * http://toronto.ark.com/~marianne * ************************************** [Posted in FML issue 1429]