Greetings- two quick notes- the ferrets referred to in the Dune books are for rodent control, not for stopping intruders. They had much bigger guards for that :) Also, the ferrets referred to in the Twin Peaks series occured after Ben Horne recovers from his small psychosis, he decides to stop the Ghostwood Estate project by bringing up the topic of the endangered species, the Pine Weasel. There is great picture of a ferret, a stuffed ferret (I think its a ferret, could be an actual weasel) and a show where the townspeople are putting on a fashiion show- they bring out a 'Pine Weasel' (actually a cute little ferret), who bites the nose of the MC and then goes about wreaking havok amongst the fashion show audience. There are some hilarious shots of the ferret bouncing after people in typical ferret fashion. [Posted in FML issue 1689]