Sukie mentions Ruffle's careful arrangment of treats on the floor. I've got two little jills, Helga and Iodine, who are seriously dedicated to food stashing. None of the other 3 girls participate, except in stash eating. Today when cleaning up the ferret room I noticed that all food stashed as in piles of threes. Today, after cleaning and while I watched, Helga and Io would take 1 to 2 food peices in their mouths on a trip from the cage food supply to the deposit destination. They took 1 to 2 trips to get the deposit numbers just right. Today's deposit places were the tent, a Big Hug sack, behind the TV stand and several deposits behind the futon couch. Then they ran through the tubes for a while, drank some water, ate some food and crashed out. Yes I counted - please don't accuse me of not having a life ;) you might be right. Sluggo, the teenage boy, loves all of this food stashing, as he is at the age where he cannot pass a food bowl without making a fill up. Now they need to start writing me some food messages! Ann [Posted in FML issue 2194]