>I am hoping those of you with ferrets and cats can help me with your >experience. ... In digest form, here's my story: My brother moved in with me from Idaho with two wonderful adult female ferts, about a year old each. I got am eight week old kitten, and for the first couple of days, the ferts would bite a bit rough. They soon settled down...as Charlie the cat got a tad bigger, they'd get in frequent wrestling matches. Everyone ate the same food (Iams kitten) often at the same time, and Charlie had a tendency to bury the girl's litterbox droppings. After about a year, the two girls were stolen out of my brother's car, probably by kids. Here in California, they're rare and valuable...he only left them for a minute. Charlie was bored, moping around with nobody to play with, so we did the "gambler's special tour bus to Reno" and smuggled back little Felix the 7week old albino Marshall. What happened next was pure comedy. Charlie had never seen an albino or an infant weasel, so he the "I'm gonna kill that rat" look...until he got a whiff of that ever-familiar scent. He retracted his claws, crouched down and gently played with little Felix, who of course was jumping up trying to eat this huge 8lbs cat. That cat raised that ferret. Charlie would actually carry Felix around by the scruff! Mikey was an adult rescue we took in about a year after that...he'd never seen a cat, but joined right into the fun regardless. One more kitten later, we had a complete household. My brother had to go back to Idaho, and since he was moving into a bigger place he took the cats and I kept the ferts. Odd note about mixed-specied wrestling: the ferts would always try and lure the kitties under something low, since in tight quarters it was "weasel domination time". In the open, a cat can do better, but we'd often see the cats outsmarted by the ferts. Felix, raised from babyhood by a cat, had a particular technique of grabbing a cat head while the cat was on it's back and staying up "above" the head, gripping with his arms...a cat can't get it's front legs up there, and was basically pinned. Adult ferrets can easily adapt to a cat; a baby cat can get used to ferts but an adult cat will never get beyond the "toleration" stage. Adding a litten to the mix should be no problem... [Posted in FML issue 1708]