>How are those for obscure fert references!! ;) In John Irving's novel "The Water Method Man" there are plenty of references to a ferret the protagnist's son keeps in a cage in the garage. His son enjoys finding "wildlife" and keeping them in cages, apparently. John Irving must hate ferrets because every reference to the critter is one of a mean, nasty, vicious wild animal that nobody can go near because it is so mean. Bah. Oh, and of course all the references to ferrets in Watership Down. And in a novel by Anne Cameron called "The Whole Fam Damily" there are two boys who are nicknamed the Weasel and the Ferret. They don't play a big part in the novel, but they are mentioned on the jacket write up, which is how I came to have received this novel for Christmas last year (My SO saw it, thought it was perfect for me). How's that for obscure? Sheena Wherret Ferrets Halfway House and Ferretry Ferret Association of Greater Vancouver [Posted in FML issue 1663]