All ferrets bite. But generally just their toys and food. In the six years I had Hershey, she bit a human absolutely ZERO times. Wouldn't even bite a cat who tried to claw her. Nestle' nipped me hard enough to draw blood exactly once, on the first day I got her from the shelter, and if I hadn't pulled away from her (or if she hadn't had a chipped tooth) I don't think even that would've drawn blood. Just a surface scratch not a puncture. Even my cats never had that kind of good record. And only one of my 13 hamsters. From what I've seen, there is no domestic animal that bites *less* than a ferret, except maybe gerbils, which I haven't had any experience with personally. E.S. [log in to unmask] [Posted in FML issue 2188]