Hello All, Discipline: Someone posted that their solution for discipline is to pick up their ferrets and cuddle them. Well, in my experience, what you get when you do this is a VERY SPOILED ferret. Auryn loves to bite/scratch feet, and when he would do this, I would pick him up because, well, it hurt, and I thought instead of spanking him, if I just removed him from the source of entertainment, he would get bored! Because of this, whenever he wants to be picked up/wants attention, he bites feet. I am now trying scruffing and yelling "No", but it is hard to do without picking him up, which means he still gets rewarded for biting feet. He also keeps attacking the kitchen for the same reason--to get attention. He climbs the baby gate, plays in all the cabinets, and when I go pick him up, he just lays in my arms and smiles. I have tried ignoring him when he is in the kitchen (all he can play with are the pots, pans, silverware, etc. He never gets in the dishwasher, stove, or fridge), and he gets bored and goes to sleep. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know. Remote controls: Please, do not let your ferrets play with remote controls. Some of them may be addicted to the rubber buttons and can't resist eating them which may lead to blockage. At the very least, you get a very sick fuzzy who vomits and lies around listless. If you are lucky, laxatone will do the trick, but complete blockage, requiring surgery, may occur. I discovered this the hard way with Auryn ("getting in more trouble than any other ferret ever thought of"). He is literally addicted to the remote control and will fight me for it continually. Most the time, I just leave it on top of the tv so he can't reach it (yeah, I know, a REMOTE does a heck of a lot of good ON the tv which is 10 feet away from the couch). Well, it works better not letting him near it than the two episodes where he ate 2 buttons completely off (and that was the remote for the cable box which I had to return...luckily, they didn't notice the missing buttons) and was throwing up for two days each time. Kathleen and the 5 (8) fuzzits (well, I think Auryn counts for at least 3 regular fuzzies). [Posted in FML issue 1646]