Mother-biter ferrets. Now that's a new one on me. With respect to perfume or hand lotion or other skin additives, well maybe; however, I have received blood-letting punctures on the back of my hands, my wrists, and especially on the top of the forearm close to the inside of the elbow. Now I wasn't wearing any perfume or such; I'm a man. My members were washed and clean, so the fact that the ferret bloodied me has to be due to something other than the scent of a skin additive. Also I haven't noticed that the female sex is more apt to bloody one than the male. So, I don't know why ferrets do this, expecially to strangers. They do possess an uncanny knack for sensing human flesh that has cloth stretched tightly over it; for example, once when squatting on the floor and playing with a group of juvenile ferrets, one of the group bit me right through my pants and underwear. It was very embarassing explaining to my urologist how I got four punctures on my manhood . . . right on the end too. For a while there, I thought he was going to call me 5-streams Edward. However, there is a procedure to just about eliminate that practice of purposeful bloodletting and it involves Ferrets NorthWest's 3-step Bonding Technique currently available on the FML Christmas sales listings. Quid faciendum? [L.] What is to be done? Edward Frettchenvergnuegen Lipinski, Der Frettchenlustbarkeitsfuehrer ! [Posted in FML issue 2128]