I just wanted to share my cute ferret story with everyone. One of my friends had a daughter that had her birthday yesterday. She invited me over, so we could have some coffee a little later. I brought my ferrets over there with me. So anyway we had the cake and the presents set out on the kitchen table. All the kids where in the toy room waiting for us to say that we were ready. The ferrets were in the travel cage. Well, we all went into the toys room to get the kids. Just as we were about o open the door, both my ferrets were running around. Somehow they must have managed to open the cage. I really wasn't in the mood to catch them right away, so I decided that I would catch them later. When we went into the romm we discoered that one of the kids had slipped and bumped her head. After three minutes of TLC she was fine and we had the kids line up the go into the kitchen. We reached to kitchen then then we saw it. Napoleon, my male was sitting ON top of the cake, busy eating some of it. The candles were mostly on the floor, but one of the was sticking to the top of his head. He had cream ALL OVER him. Joshephine, the other one, was having a ball shredding all the presents. At least half of them where unrapped. She too had cream all over her too, and because she was so sticky she had little pieces of gift wrap all over her. Dariel (the birthday kid) started screaming. She said that the ferrets must really hate her and that they really ruined her party. I felt really bad, so I grabbed the ferrets, put them back into their cage and went to get a new cake. Dariel felt a lot better once she got her cake, and luckely none of the presents were ruined! The kids were pretty loud,so that must have been thereason I didn't hear them. [Posted in FML issue 2052]