Hi, I have been reading this list for a year now and never post. We have 4 ferrets, 2 MF Sables, a Blaze and an Albino from Petersens Farms in Mn. All but the Albino, Petal, are males. Yes, girls are definitely different. She is about 8 months now and probably doesn't weight much over a lb. She can climb anything. I have never seen anything like it! She chins herself, and then pulls herself up into a chair or whatever, and from there can progressively keep going up. I used to never worry about leaving things on the dinning room table, but now I have to put the center piece up each night before going to bed or it will be off in the floor the next morning dismantled. We never put them in their cages unless we have company that frowns on ferrets, so they pretty well run the whole house. I'm always getting strange messages on my computer such as "You must restart windows before the changes will take effect". About the best toy I have found yet is the box a bookcase came in. We bought an 8' high, one of those you have to put together yourself. I put the box (it goes in the garage when company comes) in the living room and put one end of it in the seat of a char and the other end on top of the back of another. They get inside of it and use it for a slide. They are so funny when all 4 play in it. Sometimes only one will be up, and for want of something to do, he will run up it inside and slide down on his back with all 4 feet up in the air! I like to give him a push when he sticks his heard out waiting for me to make a move on him. Lt, the Blaze is especially fond of this. If you could ever have a favorite, I guess he is mine. He gets me up every morning by biting my feet, makes every step I do, and is always wanting to sleep in my lap. Our oldest Sable, Darby, is the brains of the operation. He can figure anything out. He loves to steal tomatoes and take the telephone off the hook. Kit, our other Blaze, likes to hide the cordless behind the couch in the den, their play room. If you are ever missing anything, it's a good chance you will find it there. I don't know what we would ever do without them! They certainly brighten our lives and give us so many things to laugh about in a world that seems to have so few. Lawanda, Charlie and the "Boys" and Petal [Posted in FML issue 2046]