check out http://www.furph.com/ferret.html. there are great pictures of randall(male cat) and quark(male ferret) enjoying each other's company. we have seven ferrets and four cats. each cat reacts to the ferrets differently. randall thinks they are animated cat toys and, for the most part, plays nice with them. he did get too rough once with Escher and once with Niblet and had to be put on Progesterone for a short period of time. two of the other cats pretty much ignore them, but Tigger, the one who grew up with ferrets, plays nice with them when he chooses to play with them at all (he's just too sexy for hiscat :-)). the strange thing is, like someone else on the list mentioned, Tigger is the only hunter/outside cat of the house, and he plays the nicest with the ferrets. go figure -- becki kain "words are just dust in deserts of sound." eldritch [Posted in FML issue 1514]