Now I hear my 12 year old mention that a neighbor stopped him on the street and asked him if one of our ferrets had gotten loose! This long-suffering neighbor has also returned runaway rabbits. In fact, if he found ANY animal other than our dog, he'd walk over here with it, thinking it was mine. The dog, I think, he'd probably kill. (A bad dog!) So this means Kato was cavorting all around the neighborhood for days, unknown to me! All the more amazing he made a home base under our front walk! Now, to avoid a Kato-Kodo comparison, I gotta lay low-and if our neighbor asks.........no, we never misplaced a ferret! They have a little 8 year old who might have petted him! (Sorry) (Not a humane viewpoint) BTW-Kato has been sleeping ever since he came home! Karen [Posted in FML issue 1930]