Hello Fello Ferret Lovers: Remember last spring I was telling you how Sasha managed to escape the house by exiting through a dryer hose which became disconnected when the dryer was being repaired. He climbed into the dryer hose, scooted through twenty feet of lint, etc and plopped to the snowy ground through the opening which vents to the outside. It was luck that we spotted the little rogue outside! Maybe it's because I keep my eye on him every five minutes when he's loose. Today, he pulled another stunt. I was going to do some laundry in the washing machine when I looked and could hardly believe my eyes: there's Sasha sitting on the lip at the top of the laundry basket (which is inside the washing machine). Before I could blink, let alone coax him to come to me, he dropped out of sight between the laundry basket and the outer shell of the washer:( I panicked, but thank goodness, Bruce was home! I used the squeaker to no avail because Sasha couldn't climb back up and besides which, he was having a great time investing this new arena. Bruce dismantled the washer quickly and is such a way that we were able to pull the outer shell of the machine away and Sasha climbed out to the outside world. (A few more gray hairs for me:) I'm sure that as our diminutive, and well-behaved Katy was standing there and watching all this, she was shaking her little ferret head at his silly antics. However, while this had a happy ending, this is a hazard for little ferrets which I never would have dreamed of. A few days ago we had moved some furniture and he was able to climb up from a chair, squiggle around to get past a doorway and across the dryer to the washing machine. Needless to say, the chair was promptly moved *far* away enough that he can't do that again. Oh those ferrets:) How nice to see PawPaw back on the FML! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ "Everything that lives Lives not alone Nor for itself" William Blake ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ [Posted in FML issue 1685]