Hello, thought I'd join in. My name is Chris (actually Christina) and I live in Morgantown, WV while I work on my MA in English lit. My first ferret Loki came home with me on New Years Eve 1993. It was my third year at college and I was sick and tired of not having the company of pets since my family has always had a zoo! My one roommate was terribly allergic to cats and since our family had a ferret (Watchie) before, I told my mom that's what I wanted to Christmas. I searched the state high and low and had the worst time finding a ferret. I'm sorry to say (sort of) that I got Loki at a pet store, since WV has no shelters and I hadn't found the FML yet. Loki was a tiny silver mitt female with a huge personality. My boyfriend was quite leary when he heard me say I was getting a ferret but Loki won him over in no time at all. She was soo sweet. She loved to play chase and hide and seek with us. She got into everything and loved to use my hats and shoes as places to stash her goodies-particularly stolen sweets that she never ate. She was a champion plant digger with no equal! I lost my Loki on April 18, 1997. Before Loki left for the Bridge I has started e-mailing with a lady on a cat newsgroup. I, of course, kept going on and on about Loki and how wonderful she was. Well this lady decided she was going to find out about ferrets. She did a lot of research and eventually she found a little sable boy that she named Fidget (very appropriate). Unfortunately not much later she found out that she would be moving back to Columbus (former FFZ) and she was terrified that someone would find her boy and turn him in. So Fidget came to live with me and I always thought Loki sent him to me. He is a Holmes Farm guy and weighs in at about 2.75 pounds. Fidget rules the roost at the house, he has his humans trained well. He converts everyone he meets over to a ferret lover. He always goes with me on trips and is a perpetual motion machine when he's "ON" His favs are any liquid in a glass and chew weasels. he loves bananas and oranges and chocolate (we usualy have lots of chocolate in the house, my boyfriend is from right outside of Hershey. we have to keep it in tins because Fidget will do almost anything to get to it. ) cheers chris and Fidget -- Bacca's Menagerie www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/3230 [Posted in FML issue 2152]