We just had a professional photographer come over and photograph the bunch at our house... We found that different things worked for different ferrets. When high-pitched notes are played on a harmonica, Fez just freezes and stares in that direction - so it was easy to get shots of him by blowing the harmonica from behind the photographer! Shadow is entranced by the sound of the raisin container rattling - of course, the photographer had to put up with our shaking the container right next to his head, but it DID work! P B Floyd refused to sit still without linatone - and thus the photo we got of him has his tongue sticking out of his mouth (we caught him mid-lick!). Falstaff and Butter we just got lucky with. Basically, it all depends on the particular ferret. However, one thing we did that helped a lot with all of the gang was to put the ferrets up on a 2-drawer file cabinet - they at least had to hesitate and decide to jump off before getting out of range. Also, the cabinet was against a wall, so they had to jump off in the front, not the behind (so you could catch them while they were thinking about it). The photographer had a large painted canvas as a backdrop, so we just draped that over the file cabinets and against the wall - so you can't see that its a file cabinet in the photos. There was excess fabric at the bottom, so it was a soft fall when they DID jump, but this still gave a couple precious extra seconds with which to shoot! -rochelle [Posted in FML issue 1469]