First, Paw-Paw, Thank you for your sensitivity and delicacy of feeling about the Olympics - and the lovely British team as well. The only international event that draws our global village closer has been tarnished & it hurts us all. I cried about that bomb, and I cuddled my animals and my friends even closer. Part of loving ferrets the way we all do is seeing how universal love can be. Maybe we can share that somehow with the victims and their families.I do know that our laughter and commitment to the fuzzbutt's well-being lightens the load for all of us. If the bomber had had love, maybe he wouldn't have had to do what he did. Bill Killian: Don't get discouraged. People do what they do & sometimes they have tantrums. Whatever the 'group' dynamic is, we love our ferrets, and that binds us together. Anything can be negotiated between people of good will & most of the folk here are that, I'm convinced. I read Dayna telling us about Foggy, and I feel the power we have in each of us to heal. There's too much joy in the ferts to be sad about people for long - besides they need us. Herein endeth the reading of the word..... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ **************************************************************************** Sammi, Sammi, psst... Camille here - Ma started that leaky eye thang agin, so I took over the pooter...Quick, afore she honks her nose & comes back here.... Conan's all sad & stuff. He saw Smudge's propositional to you & he's sorry he didn't tell how much he wants to luv with you & give you cuddles & kisses & skootches and stuff like that. He gots lots a raisins hid for ya, and he knows how to get inside a Ma's Dookerware stuff lids and git you stuff she hid for treats and he has a secret nest in Ma's big wooden condo in her room that you can share if ya want so you & him can cuddle & stuff all night long. It's got everthin ya need except for a leegal place to poop, but the corner ain't bad either. When he figgered out you was a albino too, he just knowed you were for him. I know you don't got a close gull fert to talk this over with, but I really think you should mawwy him. He really loves your sweet white self. Besides, I really want to meet dat Foggy guy Ma's always tellin us bout. I know your sisfert thinks he's her sole-mate, but I'll love him & be his feets for him and cuddle wiv him alla times coz I think he's wonderfert. Pleez marivatate my brudder Conan, pleez, pleez, pleez...He's jus pinin away (he's down to 3 lbs!) for you. He's too shy to tell you himselfert, so I did. C'mon, C'mon, whaddya say, huh,???? Ooops - gotta go - here comes MA! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ **************************************************************************** Anyway, BIG and fellow FML'ers, thanks you for sharing your ferrets with me and letting mine come into your lives. These magic, elfin creatures enrich us all & that bond can't be broken. Paula Bryder Camille the Sweet (c'mon Ma, kiss me again, c'mon) Conan the Large (please Ma, can't I marvy that Sammi fert, please, please) Rikki the Calm (wedding? oh, ok, if that's whatcha want) Cady the Dawg & Kelsey the Cat (Yawns) [Posted in FML issue 1645]