Hello everyone, Sorry about the length of this but I am quite worried about my Ferret I have had my Furball (his name is Sigmund) for about two months. He was about 5 months old when we got him at a pet store. As of now we are still having some problems with Siggi occasionally biting for no reason. As a result we still can not let him run around the house when not on a leash. He gets far too aggressive when you try to pick him up again. The funny thing is that if a person handles and holds him, he is the sweetest little furball, but once or twice he has turned around and started biting horribly. To the point that blood was drawn and stiches were in order. We have done all of the things that the books seem to recommend, (ie picking them up by the scruff and giving them a stern no) or even to flick him on the nose and put him straight back in his cage, and that has seemed to help the biting for no reason. But we still have problems tracking him down when we want to put him back in the cage. He gets very bittie and aggressive. The store where we got him doesn't seem to have a clue about even what a Ferret is (besides the fact that its a small Fuzzy they sell) so they haven't been too much help. The only thing that has been mentioned to me is by another happy Ferret owner. She said for me to get a second fuzzy. (From a shelter maybe ? ) She said that her fuzzy was relatively miserable when he was alone for six months. She said that he perked up ten times over when he had a friend to play with and disobey her with :) I am asking the list because I thought that I could get some good advice on what I should do. I love my Sigmund tremendously and I think he is the best, but his biting has got to stop. I would appreciate any input people could give me on this via E-mail. Also if anyone knows of a shelter in the Eastern Ontario region, (I live in Ottawa, Ontario) or even in the Thousand Island area of New York I would much rather get a fuzzy that needs a home from a shelter. Sigmund sends his warmest sniffings to all of us out there in the Ferret community. Frederico Baumhardt and Sigmund Von Poop-a-lot [Posted in FML issue 1699]