I have a new category for this. It's "the most ignorant question anyone ever asked you about ferrets." Now, I fully recognize that honest questions are not dumb and all questions deserve to be answered respectfully and that it's our opportunity to educate and advocate when we are asked about our fuzzies. But aren't there some questions you just can't BELIEVE someone asked you? For instance: "You have ferrets? Don't they BITE?" (Uh, yeah, all the time. I love having pets that bite me and my young children all the time.) "Ferrets? Don't they carry rabies?" (Uh, yeah, that's why pet stores sell them. Pet stores welcome rabies lawsuits.) Now that you get the drift, here's the question I was asked most this month: "Ferrets climb trees, right?" (Yeah, and they nest with squirrels, then drop on your head from high branches.) OK, who else has a remarkably uninformed question to share? Kat [Posted in FML issue 2223]