I've found a book to add to the list of 'essential ferret books': "Training Your Pet Ferret" by Gerry Bucsis and Barbara Somerville. It gives lots of good advice on ferret litter-training, training not to nip, training to come to their name or to a squeaky toy, leash training (believe it or not), shoulder training, as well as bonding with your ferret, and toys/games they may enjoy. The book states that it is *not* a general care guide, and that there are other good books for that (and lists several in the back); and yet it also goes into care, feeding, housing, choosing a vet, ferret-proofing, travelling with your ferret, and so forth. A very good book overall (plus it includes the obligatory cute ferret pictures :). In case anyone's interested, it's ISBN 0-7641-0093-9, published by Barron's; my cost was $11.99, though that's Canadian; it'll be cheaper in the States. -- John Rosloot, Caregiver to Cassidy and Sammy With loving memories of my dear departed Buddy Technical analyst, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Regina Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada http://www.cs.uregina.ca/~john/ferrets [log in to unmask] [Posted in FML issue 2249]