Hi again everybody! It has been a long time since I have posted, but I had to announce the arrival of our new kit, Duncan! I walked into a pet store here in Quincy, Il. on Tuesday, and I fell in love (again). I went home and told my boyfriend (Chuck--this is his account) that he had to see this little boy. So on Wed. he and I went to see the ferret (which I had put on hold ;) ) and Chuck couldn't resist him either. So I bought Duncan then and there. He is a dark sable MF with a fairly short face and a brown nose. He is @ 8 weeks old and is the rolly-polliest baby I have ever seen. He is sleeping in my lap as I type. We were on our way to the vet's office so Chuck could do some computer work and so I took Duncan along. Dr. Kaiser loved him (he loves all of our fuzzies) and I weighede him while we were there. He weighs 1.5 lbs. and he is only 8 weeks! I fell in love because he was the prettiest, biggest, happiest boy in the bunch. He is going to be huge. He weighs the same as our 1 yr. old sprite, Kit, and about .7 lbs less than our 1 yr. old sprite, Loki. Thankfully, I can say that the introductions were no problem. The older ferrets watched me play with Duncan from their cage for a few minutes. Boy, were they interested in him. He, however couldn't have cared less about them, but then again, I had just removed him from a pet store cage with 8 other babies. What were two more big ferrets to him! Duncan got a bath in ferret shampoo and then I introduced them. Kit and Loki followed him around, sniffing and then ran away from the big, floppy baby boy! They couldn't figure out what this silly big thing was doing in their kitchen, but they didn't try and hurt him at all. Within an hour they were all sleeping together in the third floor hamock. Today (Thurs.), they played a bunch, went outside, and I took Duncan to my Philosopy and Lit. class at QU. They are getting along fine and Duncan loves all of Kit and Loki's toys, especially the pacifiers! Yeah! He hasn't figured out the litter box yet, but hopefully he will learn from being woken up and placed in it immediately. At first I thought he was older, but obviously he is just a large kit because he hasn't lost his milk teeth yet. His canines are all the way in and the milk teeth are loose, but they haven't fallen out.This was consistant with the other 8 kits at the pet store. Besides, he has the fat little baby tummy, he squeeks and whimpers, and he hasn't totally figured out how to control his great big feet. He is on hard food (I feed Marshalls) and turned up his nose at softened food. He eats voraciously (I hope ten lbs. lasts for a while)! Anyway, sorry this is so long, but I wanted to share my happiness with all of the great FMLers out there. Paw Paw--we will miss you, but I'm glad you are writing again! sick fuzzies--get better soon...we wanna play! Tricia Grebner and Chuck Henderson (aarrgh....ferret math!!! Math sucks, fuzzies are wonderful) Loki (why?WHY? is he biting ME? I'll teach him some manners! I taught Kit.) Kitiara (You didn't teach me, Mommy did! I bite everything and I'm gonna bite Duncan too!) Duncan (FEED ME, GIMME WATER, HEY C'MERE <FLOP>WHOOPS) [Posted in FML issue 1544]