I've been lurking around this mailer for a few months now, ever since my little brother and I brow beat our parents into letting finally get a pet. For years I wasn't allowed one because my mother and I were severely allergic to cats. That's when I discovered ferrets!! :) It took alot of convincing and then finally my own job and money, but one day I was visitng a local pet store, the only one I like because they hire an extremely large number of employees who /find/ time to play with their animals before they are sold. When I found my little Jingoro, he was people friendly and very sweet. Jingoro is 5 months old now, /just/ getting out of that nippy stage. He still goes for my mom's ankles, but he's very sweet around me and my brother. He's a male silver-mitt, or as my vet described, "He's squirrle colored!" ;) Jingoro has this one peculiar habit that I find facinationg. Sometimes when we play, he suddenly lies down for no apparent reason. I mean belly flat to the carpet. He'd be tearing across the room and then comes to a complete stop and lies down for about a second, then takes off again. It's weird, he looks totally adorabe when he does it, but we can't figure out /why/. Any clues out there? Anyone else have a fuzzykin who dies the same? Esther and Kevin Hung + Jingoro, Stealer of Socks and Destroyer of Fuzzy Slippers. [Posted in FML issue 1939]