I have a mentally challenged ferret that we raised from a baby (kit). His name is Apollo and he just can't seem to understand the difference between playing differently with his ferret friends and his people friends. He's always nipping our faces to invoke play, the others learned very quickly it's not acceptable, but he would be confused when we scolded him for it. It made him too timid to play because he didn't understand why we were upset with him, so we long ago quit scolding him and just live with it so he can play with and enjoy being around us. We are just very careful not to get him too close to our faces (that's tough at night when they are out and we are asleep tho' ;) ). So we decided that he's a bit slow and we love him anyway. He's not as active as the other ferrets and seems to be more sensitive to touch (not wiggly to get away and be curious but uncomfortable being held (touched) for very long). For those interested Athena, Ulysses and Spartan, our three ferrets from Fredonia are doing great. Job and Badger still don't like them but everyone else loves them, we just make sure Job and Badger are put up when it's time to let them out to play (and that Job, Badger, Ulysses and Spartan are up when Athena is out, they make her spray, phew!) ;) . Athena loves to be held and cuddled. She'd rather cuddle in my arms than play, I love it!!!! :) Spartan and Ulysses are best and fast friends, they like to cuddle to but they like to play a lot. Watching them play when they are out is pure pleasure! They love being out!! Spartan loves to chase around and Ulysses loves my toes, so I wear shoes when he's out! They both love to give kisses (Spartan loves giving them the most tho'). Athena's best friend is our albino male King Tut. He's gentle and loves to cuddle too. They look so cute when they are sleeping, just one big ball of white fur! Their favorite place to sleep is in my DH's leather and lambs wool winter hat, hard to tell where the lambs wool stops and they start. ;) The rest of my crew is doing well except for Cassie, looks like we will have to have our vet do an exploratory and look for adrenal disease (she's only 2 1/2 ). Anyone dealing with this that can e-mail me with any insight on this disease and how to keep her happy and pain free after her adrenals are removed I would appreciate any information you care to send. I want to keep her around as long as I can. I guess after surgery her energy will pick back up? Vicky and her "wad" (my son's term, appropriate if you've seen them sleep together) of 17 [log in to unmask] [Posted in FML issue 1871]