It was odd that about two minutes after reading yesterday's FML, and the story of the crickets in the bathtub, that I found Penny under the dining room table with what remained of a two-inch "Palmetto bug" hanging out of her mouth. When I approached, she stopped chewing, looked up at me and clamped her mouth shut as if to say, "what bug?" But, the little legs sticking out both sides of her mouth gave her away. I walked away feeling better that she wasn't eating something she wasn't supposed to eat and she happily continued her meal We call them "Palmetto bugs" as a defense mechanism. They are really just huge cockroaches that mostly live outside but no one likes to admit they have cockroaches in their house. They're a fact of life here though, and anyone who lives in Southern Florida and says they've never had an occasional Palmetto bug in their house is either blind or lying. Penny loves 'em, but then she'll eat just about anything. The two boys will munch on one occasionally, but they won't go to a lot of trouble to catch one. For the ferrets, Mike * Michael F. Janke, [log in to unmask] * Secretary, South Florida Ferret Club & Rescue * * Visit our web site: http://www.miamiferret.org [Posted in FML issue 2350]