Hi everyone, I'm so glad to have met you all through your postings, some of which are really great and more entertainment than I a body has a right to! I'm fairly new to the world of ferts and have a few questions that I hope someone can help me with. I have two fuzzies, Triple F Farms if it matters and they are five months old. First one, Pepper, a sable I think, is a playful biter by that I mean he only bites when he is playing, war dancing or after a bath. I have tried yelling no and screeching to stop this as he has hurt my daughter a few times. Because he is doing it playfully I really don't want to tap his nose or put him in their cage. He doesn't mean to hurt and is a lovely cuddly teddy bear, a real ladies man, who tries valiantly to bury me in kisses. Second is Stinky,(not really sure what she is, maybe a silver mitt) oops sorry the kids think her name is Diamond. I will always think of her as Stinky, capable of amazing feets (she just loves em), leaper of tall buildings, digger of gigantic holes, mess maker of all time, thief of hearts and movable objects etc. She is capable of all this and yet is tiny and when I pick her up she feels skeletal to me, all bones you know (Pepper is a healthy weight, not fat but he has some meat to him). I was feeding them 8 in 1 ferret food but switched to Iams kitten food in the hope that she would put on some weight. I am still searching for Totally Ferret which is hard to come by here in Boston. Does anyone have a snail mail address for them? Another problem with Stinky is that she sometimes wheezes (like a kid with ashama) when she is playing rough or has the run of the house. Everything else is great, she has never bitten, is always game for anything, stool i s normal so are her eating habits. BTW her bedding is made of old cotton blankets but the store I bought them from used some kind of wood chips although I don't think she was there long enough for any real damage to= have been done as I bought them at 7 weeks of age. Thanks in advance for all your help and please let me what I can do to help. with this newest incident in Michigan, my fax and envelopes are standing by. Deanna ---- STINKY, Stinky .... wait ... come back Stinky ---- Ha ha she'll never catch me now ... I'm free, I'm fre= e Pepper --- Oh boy, here we go again .... run Stinky, catch her Mom <--= ---- always the diplomat [Posted in FML issue 2004]