Never thought I would have to ask this, because my ferts have had an absolute aversion to raisins... up till now. This is how it happened.. I was sitting on my bed munching on "nuts and bolts" which is RAISINS ..M&M's... and peanuts. Ya'll see why the two are capitalized in just a second... Anyhoo... sitting there munching happily away and reading my book when I feel two tiny little feet on my leg. Looking out the corner of my eye so as not to startle the fuzzie. Sure enough, little Cayanne was there looking at me seeing if I had noticed her yet or not. Since I didn't respond, she carefully and slowly crept up and stuck her head in the baggie of nuts and bolts sniffed for a second.. and glommed onto a raisin. Once her prize was firmly within her grasp, she took off like a bat out of hell to her hidey hole where the satisfied sounds of a ferret snacking on a raisin could be heard. Next up was Tenaka... same thing, except he didn't care if I saw him or not. Jabba shows no interest. Cayanne came back for seconds, and this time glommed an M&M. I figured ONE could not hurt, so I let her take it. Tenaka came back for another raisin, and Jabba investigated the bag, sneezing all over the contents. Well, this started the raisin craze for mine. I can't go anywhere NEAR the box of raisins that I got once they showed an interest. If I do, they really go nuts in the cage, with Tenaka biting the cage bars so hard I worry about him cracking a tooth! BTW: I do let them out, but only when I am there. I would need about 400 tons of sheet steel to ferret proof my apartment (or even my bedroom) because this place was NOT designed with ferts in mind. So, just as I am making appointments for my ferrets to get into Raisins Anonymous, I need to know how many of the things I can safely give as a treat. I mean, REALLY.. these critters are going BONKERS and being extraordinarlily cute if they think there is a raisin in it for em. Also... Jabba stole his first sock.. and that was hysterical too! He snared my sock that I had just taken off, and dragged it behind the dresser which is his hidey hole. About a minute after he got the sock in there, he started sneezing uncontrollably, and *PWAM!* Jabba couldn't drag the sock out of the hidey hole fast enough! He dropped the sock and sat there looking so miserable, I just had to give him some ferretone. Respectfully, Bryan Hall [Posted in FML issue 1814]