Yesterday morning (Australia Day) the kids treated us to breakfast in bed. They brought bagels with cream cheese and smoked salmon yum yum went the parents, :-) :-). I had just had one bite and was putting said bagel down on my plate when "vrrrooom", Basil the Boofhead shot onto the bed like a bat out of hell, clamped his teeth down on the bagel and raced off. I lunged, caught him by the scruff of his neck, he screamed (and I mean screamed) and dropped everything but the salmon. I got him in a hammerlock and tore the salmon out of his mouth. My husband said there was something rather sad about a middle-aged woman wrestling on the bed with her ferret over a piece of fish .... I didn't care! Needless to say the kids shamed me into giving Basil a little (and I mean LITTLE) bit of salmon after that fiasco! Do American ferrets enjoy the good life too????? Nona Langley The Ferret Centre [Posted in FML issue 1459]