I have several photos of my two fuzzbutts up on the web at www.geocities.com/HotSprings/5310. Drop by sometime. A new job for ferrets: plumbers's helpers. The thrashing noises in the bathroom were louder than usual, punctuated by a yelp from my SO. She walked in and discovered two ferts in the tub with a ball of hair nearly as large as them. Turns out they were digging at the drain and got hold of some strands tangled with an accumulation from the trap! And the drain had not even begun backing up. Later I put a raisin in the sink drain to encourage the male, Pogo to clean it out, too. He did get the raisin and loved wrestling with the tool I eventually used to drag out the hair. Maybe his paws are too big for the lavatory drain. Gary Robertson [log in to unmask] http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/5310 [Posted in FML issue 1863]