My wife is a science teacher, so we have all sorts of pets. Of course, our "primary" pets are our two ferrets, but we also have gerbils, a tarantula, and some hissing cockroaches. In our experience with gerbils and ferrets, the ferrets never want to eat us after we play with the gerbils. Our female has a tendancy to get on top of the gerbil cage and scratch at it if we let her, and she once tried to bite a gerbil (my wife let them get a little too close :( ) Of course, we may have relatively calm ferrets. But, they are never more "fond" of us once we handle the gerbils. +-------------------------------+--------------------------------+ | David C. Bouchard | "All my Life I've been one | | Computer Science / Physics | who scans the horizon..." | | Oklahoma State University | -Brooks Williams | +----------------------------------------------------------------+ [Posted in FML issue 1912]