Jenny, our ferret Drifter got his name because the person we got him from hadn't named him yet, & he was already several months old when we got him. So we called him "the ferret with no name" after Clint Eastwood's "man with no name" movies: High Plains Drifter. So Drifter might be good, but Clint would be better - to go with the other name you mentioned. Or there's always Nemo . . . although overused to the max. Re: age of neutering - I haven't noticed a correlation here - we had one male that wasn't neutered until he was 1-1/2 years old, and he never reached 4 lb. Another we got already neutered prior to 3 months old and he went OVER 4 lb.! I would think that they would get bigger if you neutered them early, not late. But at any rate, I just finished reading yet another ferret book and this one says you shouldn't get a ferret neutered/spayed prior to 6 mo. old, because of the unnecessary physical stress on an already-stressed infant ferret. Also the concern was that at that young an age, the surgery is more difficult for the vet as well, and there would be more chance for error. While the ones I see in the stores seem healthy, I guess we wouldn't see the ones who didn't make it, would we? What do the vets on line think on this subject? CJK Drifter (you're gonna do WHAT?) Judah (what are those?) Muggsie (<----got fat when fixed) Shiloh (<----relaxed when fixed) [Posted in FML issue 1469]