>P.S. In multi pet households does anyone else have to contend with >keeping the ferrets from eating the dog food, the cat from eating the >kitten food, the kitten from eating the ferret food, and the dog >eating everyone's food? LOL! YES!! The cat's food is on a high shelf only cats can get to (the jumps are too wide for my ferrets). The ferret's food is in a large parrot feeder in the cage, but I've caught my cats reaching in with her paw and scooping out tidbits! We just laugh at her (if we'd put that in her dish she would have been offended!) and that seems to be all the discouragement she needs. The dog will snarf up the pieces the fuzzies kick out, but can't get to the ferret dish where it is. The dog food, however, is a favorite of five out of my six ferrets and a constant problem. She goes nuts trying to defend her bowl from 5 sly and fast ferrets! She stands there and desperately tries to eat it before they can get it. She sometimes gets angry enough to growl at the ferrets (have you ever heard a dog growl with food in its mouth?). I've been careful lately to put up the food dish to help the situation, but the dog stands there and woofs at me that she wants her food! :) And the ferrets seem to be able to smell it and try over and over and over to get to the food. Sheesh. It seems like the worse it is for them, the more they want it! Like ferret-candy or something. --Barb-- -=- -=- -=- -=- -=- -=- -=- -=- -=- -=- -=- -=- -=- -=- -=- -=- -=- -=- -=- Barbara Carlson Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA [log in to unmask] Work: (412) 268-1342 Home: (412) 481-5927 http://www.gsia.cmu.edu/andrew/bcarlson/home.html (under construction) Thought for the day: If "boring women have immaculate homes," I must be very interesting! -=- -=- -=- -=- -=- -=- -=- -=- -=- -=- -=- -=- -=- -=- -=- -=- -=- -=- -=- [Posted in FML issue 1807]