I took Baby to the park with me today and met an elderly gentleman, at least I think he was anyway :-) He came up to me after watching us for a few minutes and asked if Baby had eaten me yet (his exact words), of course I told him no that Baby didn't bite at all. He proceeded to tell me all about the early days with ferrets and how they were used to kill people. I tried to interrupt him a few times but he insisted that the Egyptians ... no, it was the Italians ... maybe the Indians.... Finally, he decided that it was the Indians after all who used them to kill people. All the while Baby is digging in the dirt, rolling on to his back and generally stretching his fat butt out to catch all the sunny rays he could get. He was being an absolute lovable doll ;-) Again I tried to interrupt and tell him about my guys but he just kept rambling on. He ended the conversation by telling me that when baby ferrets are born they are given a shot to get all the poison out of their blood so they're not killers anymore. I knew by then that no matter what I said it wasn't going to help this man understand ferrets so with a straight face I told him I would have to call my vet about that poisin blood killing shot. I've had my guys down to the park almost everyday for the last 2 weeks and someone almost always has something, usually quite wrong, to say about ferrets but today was the weirdest yet. Deanna and the sun bathing crew [Posted in FML issue 2271]