The Baltimore Ferret Show will be held this Saturday, September 21st from 10:00 a.m. until 6:00 P.M. at the Annapolis Armory in Annapolis, Maryland. There will be fun events all day, ferrets being shown in championship & speciality rings, doubtless lots of vendors with customized ferret goodies, etc. Bring your ferret to compete in fun events - but also bring proof of current canine distemper vaccination for entrance to the show. Call 410-448-1281 for information. carpet digger - Erika - try bitter apple in a tube - for furniture. This is pretty sticky but will not evaporate like liquid bitter apple. Smear on area where chewing is going on. Ferret probably will not like it and give up the game and find something else to get into. Saved buttons on a leather chair by using this - everyone decided these neat leather buttons not worth the bad taste. And very little dissuades my monsters. Steve - anal scent glands are located on either side of the anus. Up-ended a couple of my intact ferrets to see how visible they were (they should not be too easy to spot, or you might have a problem) - hard to see, but trust me, they are there! While whole hobs can be quite musky when in season, in my experience, the jills are most apt to release their scent glands. The girls have "Jill spats". This is usually accompanied by a lot of noise, brushed tail and immediate release of scent glands. And bummed out looks. They never really hurt each other - just sorting out the top jill thing. Their favorite place to conduct these spats seems to be under the covers at night. Now that will get you out of bed in a hurry! If they are really stinky, I rinse litte butts under tap and blot dry. Otherwise, scent usually dissapates in a few minutes. Nilsa - Your baby ferret is quite young and probably missing litter mates and mama. Normal for baby to cry - and they do cry. Handle baby as much as possible, and if any of your other guys are very accepting of the new one, put him/her in the cage with baby. Baby will be happier with a real live ferret companion. Mush for kit - there have been various recipes reported. What I use in introducing kits to mush is chicken or turkey baby food, Totally Ferret finely powdered in electric coffee grinder, and Esbilac puppy milk replacer. Make it quite liquid at first and gradually move more toward regular feed as kits mature. I also give kits cooked chicken breast or turkey at about five weeks. This is a trip. And you must mind your digits. Kits become totally feral, snatching and grabbing the offerred poultry. They snap and bark at each other and sometimes have tiffs over a choice morsel. Well, after all, they are carnivores! This, introduced at an early age, will give them a life long love of chicken and turkey and even beef. Should not be a replacement of regular diet but an adjunct. And this can come in handy - especially when ill - good source of protein. The kits really go bonkers over this - "And we have been getting mush when this was around - hey!" BTW, for anyone who does not know it, BIG really does edit and get out the FML in the wee hours of the morning. With own busy schedule, I have flashed out my mail several times recently at 2 or 3 a.m. and been surprised to have next days issue of FML coming in. Hey, Bill, such dedication. Has anyone said "thank you" recently? Well, Thank You! Cheers, Meg [Posted in FML issue 1695]