Dear Marti, Because of the nature of the Internet, it's not very that hard to misunderstand a person. I was not saying your friend DID take offense, I was suggesting that you be careful that someone MIGHT take offense. If you tell ME you think something's wrong w/ my ferret b/c she's small and you start to question my choice of foods, I, personally, would take offense (assuming I'd never 'met' you before and didn't know anything about you), because I know my 'kids' eat better than I do. I'm glad your friend took no offense. I'm sorry if YOU did with my posting(s). That certainly wasn't the intent. And now that you know my ferrets eat well, and that it's not unusual or unhealthy for a ferret to be just a pound, you can call my Applejuice "Peanut" all you want. :) Anna, Sweet Petite Applejuice, "i'm on a mission" K-Nack, and tubby Beckett [Posted in FML issue 1826]