Brian Walker asked about introducing a new ferret. When we got Rascal, she was no bigger than the palm of my hand. Our other two ferrets, Slinky (3 yrs) and Bandit (6 months) were easily twice her size (or more). We kept Rascal in a separate cage and only let her "mingle" with the other two ferrets for short, supervised periods. Bandit (male) would wrestle with Rascal pretty physically, so we were more careful when he would come over to see Rascal during these play times. This went on for maybe four weeks. During this time, Rascal went from canned kitten food to normal ferret food and she learned to use the litter box for its designated purpose (i.e., NOT a sand box!!!!). When the three of them looked like they were starting to get along during their supervised play times, we decided to go one step further. One afternoon we let them play together and then put all three into the main cage. We watched them for maybe a couple of hours before we took Rascal out for the night (the session went well but we were not ready to permanently move her in with the other two). We did this again a couple of times before making the big move! Now all three are happy as larks!!!! Our oldest ferret (Slinky, 3 yrs) took a while to warm up to Rascal. Rascal is a ball of energy ... which suits Bandit just fine (they take turns ambushing each other and then gyrate wildly doing their war dances!!!!). Slinky is sedate. Rascal has had a positive influence on Slinky ... Slinky is much more active now than before we got Rascal. But Slinky still has her limits and let's Rascal know when those limits are exceeded (she starts making this strange sort of hissing sound at first. Then she goes into her ultra-play mode where she jumps on Rascal's back and shakes her head back and forth while biting (not hard) her back. She even resorts to head butting ... Slinky turns perpendicular to Rascal then quickly runs into Rascal's side with her head lowered (kind of like a submarine tackle in football). This method is extremely good at dislodging Rascal from the bed ... much to Rascal's chagrin!!!! But that always puts Slinky as "Queen of the Hill"! Then she can "patrol" the edges of the bed and nip at the other two as they try to gain the much desired bed top perch!!!! Hysterical! Well, enough of my ramblings! Good luck with introducing the new ferret to Snowflake, Brian! BTW, I love the name Snowflake!!! What type of ferret is she/he??? Albino, Silver-Mit, Silver? Marc Wilson [Posted in FML issue 1409]