Two days ago, Michelle wrote: >However, he has this one odd little habit. While we're in bed (the ferrets >live in our bedroom), usually in the middle of the night while we're >sleeping, he'll climb up the tube to our bed, bite the nearest available >foot/ankle/toe/calf (usually mine as my legs are closer to the tube) >viciously hard, and then run like hell. Oh yes indeedy. This is Cully's behavior to a T. I've had him for over two years and he's still doing it. Bitter Apple before bed can help, but I get sick of the smell of it, and the little twerp is clever enough to sniff around for a part of foot or ankle that I missed and chomp there. I can usually tell when he's about to deliver a chomp, because he'll sniff around my feet, gradually drawing his body over them and arching up his neck right before the chomp. If I'm awake, I'll stop him right before he can bite, and that's usually enough to derail that train of thought in his brain. There have been some early mornings where he's been remorseless, though. I don't think there is any reason, at least none that makes sense to human beings, although I'm sure there's some perfectly logical explanation for it in their furry little heads... Regina ("OW!") Cully ("i forgot it was your foot. i was sure it was a rabbit. i think i'd better check again just to be sure...") Amelia (zzzzz) -- Regina Harrison http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/1083 And time gets somewhat muddled here But no matter, no matter [Posted in FML issue 2158]