Dear Tammi, and all others who may be having a similar problem with an aggressor. This is Edward at Ferrets NorthWest responding to your plea for help, regarding the difficult relationship between your two ferts. I should like to suggest that you first get both ferts hooked on Ferretone, if they are not already crazy about this oil mixture. The quickest way to do this is to scruff the fert that has not yet developed a taste preference for the Ferretone, suspending the scruffed fert completely off the ground, so that it is suspended in midair. Drizzle Ferretone into the scruffed ferret's mouth, especially as it yawns. Hold on very tightly at this introduction, because the sudden infusion of FT may cause a highly distressed reaction of the fert to the sudden and new taste of a foreign substance into its mouth or on its muzzle. You should be able to tell fairly quickly when the fert has accepted the FT and is eagerly licking for more. Then relax the fert from the scruff so that all four paws are on the table top. Give a few more drops of FT from the bottle directly to the fert's tongue. Then, pick up the fert and cuddle it in the crook of your arm, add a few drops of FT into the FLATTENED palm of your other hand, so that the fert can lick this oil from your opened palm. Repeat this palm licking by the fert four or five times during the day, being alert to the reaction of the fert as all the FT is licked off your palm, since the fert may be inclined to chew on your hand, for the avowed purpose of possibly getting additional FT, especially if you cup your hand and the FT is concentrated in the folds of your palm skin. Keep you palm fully opened, so that there are no skin folds. Just one or two drops on the palm of your hand for the fert to lick is all you'll probably need. It has been reported that FT in excess of one tablespoon per 24 hour period may produce liver toxicity, so be a little niggardly in dispensing the FT. During the palm licking episodes, support your fert high upon your chest with your forearm, all the while talking profusely to the fert. The fert should be able to smell your breath, while simultaneously getting your highly specific skin scent from your palm, listening to the individual characteristics of your voice signature, feeling the warmth of your body, possibly your heart beat, and the overall scent of your clothes and hair. However, on the first few encounters, be alert to a possible chin nip from the fert after all the FT has been licked away. Interestingly enough, the fert will usually continue licking other parts of your hand/fingers where there was no FT, assumedly as the taste of the FT on its tongue is absorbed. Be alert here, also, for the possibility of a nip. After both ferts are "addicted" to FT, then repeat the above procedure with both ferts simultaneously licking from your hand or from the bottle of FT. The two ferts should be held side by side, parallel to each other, and not facing each other. It is helpful if another person can assist you at this time, perhaps by dispensing the FT. It is not uncommon for the two ferts to lick each other's muzzles after most of the FT is gone. Encourage this to the greatest extent possible, even if it means squirting a surplus of FT on the table/floor. Repeat this procedure several times daily. Lastly, allow the two ferts freedom of access to each other, but only after drizzling copious quantities of FT on the backs of their necks and only after you rub it into their back-neck fur with your fingers, so that the FT actually coats the skin as well as the fur. As a consequence of this FT application where they would ordinarily take a purchase of each other in the fighting mode, they will likely damn near kiss each other to death! No. Not really; I'm just kidding. By the way, in the interim, it would be beneficial if you were to alternately cage each individual ferret in the same cage, while allowing the second fert complete freedom outside of that cage. Then, switch them several times a day. Good luck. Let me know how this technique works for you, please. Edward Frettchenvergnuegen Lipinski, Der Frettchen Meister von Mercer Inselreich, Der Staat Washingon, Die Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika [Posted in FML issue 2073]