My carpet sharks have made a career out of leepiing from furnature onto the coffee table (first time I heard a ferret squeek was when Feasty found my hot tea and tipped it over. Not too much damage done, though he HAS left hot liquids alone since then...). The best incident was when I was stringing an Navaho necklace, complete with silver beads. Bear did his flying thing and decided the quart size zip lock baggy full of silver beads belonged in the FLO trashery, er.... treasury. Bear is a 2 pound ferret, a quart baggy of silver beads weighs on at around 10 pounds. I had good fun watching the tug of war as he manuevered the beads toward the edge. First he backed off the table, a tried and true method for getting heavy object of countertops, but when he backed over the edge, the bag refused to go: result, a ferret dangling in mid air, teeth firmly attached to a bag of beads. Trial number two, he bit into the bag and with ferret persistance wiggled it closer and closer to edge. Suddenly, gravity took over and the bag slid off the table top, dragging a veeeeeery surprised ferret along with it. For just a split second Bear, feet splayed out and sheer desperation shining in his eyes, managed to stop the fall. Gravity won outh dragging beads and Bear into the abyss. DOOK DOOK DOOK DOOK DOOK!!!! Im not sure whether he was swearing at the beads, swearing at himself, or swearing at us for laughing at him. Bear USED to like to drink wine, until he found half a glass of unattended red wine. He crawled off to sleep it off, and we of course kept looking in on him to make sure he was all right. About 3 hours later, the signs of a major hangover began appearing (and us still looking in on him, which I'm sure didn't help him one bit). Ever seen a hung over fert? Truly heart ache-ingly pathetic. He hasn't touched a drop since. FAVORITE GAME: show your ferts a raisin (let 'em get real excited) then drop the raisin into a large cardboard box full of styrofoam peanuts. Let em jump in and hunt. Watch the raisin and them sink out of sight. Root Root Root Nudge Nudge Nudge Fight Fight Fight. They LOOOOOOVE this game! David M. [Posted in FML issue 1565]