I'm planning on getting a ferret the weekend after Christmas. I'm been going around to the local pet stores, looking. My question: Are all kits really nippy? Or are the ones in the stores right now nippy because they're getting handled so much, what with Christmas and all? One the other day got her teeth in my earlobe, and had to be coaxed to let go. Another one yesterday drew blood from my SO - although that was mostly his fault, I said "Don't try to pull your finger out", and he did anyway. But I haven't seen _any_ that haven't at the very least nipped hard enough to hurt. Is this normal? How hard is it going to be to get them to stop when I get them home? And am I going to be better off waiting until, say, the middle of January, when they aren't being handled so much? Thanks for any advice! Tina Marie (who has, at last, found the perfect cage - now she just needs fuzzys to put in it...) [Posted in FML issue 1780]