Howdy, It's been a long time since I posted. I've been so busy, I've barely been able keep up with reading the FML, much less post. Probably a good thing though, I probably would have offended some people's delicate sensibilities with my reactions to some of the posts, especially the goldfish ones. I would have said something dumb about dolphin-safe tuna vs. tuna-safe dolphins, but it would have been ferret-related because my ferrets like to eat tuna and they have a dolphin-shaped squeek toy. I was also impressed that in two different posts there was reference to lime jello :) Anyway, the actual reason I'm posting is to introduce the newest member of The Weezils of Doom. For months now I've been successfully fending off ferret math. But when I saw an add in the paper for a free ferret, ferret math quickly upgraded to ferret calculus. I wanted another ferret and I hate to see adds for free ferrets because everyone and their dog will be calling for it. At least with me, know the ferret will get a good home. (I also believe ferrets are not objects to be bought and sold as possessions (when you give money for a ferret, you are not paying for the ferret, you are paying for the *privilege* of owning a ferret (if you assigned a monetary value to a ferret, the only person that could afford to own one would be Bill Gates (I just put this in here so I could have four levels of parenthesis.)))) His current name is Travis (which will probably change since I don't think Travis is a very ferrety name) and he's Marshall albino male. When I picked the new guy up, he was in pretty sad shape. He was real skinny and his hair was dry and brittle and had some bald spots. His owner had been feeding him Friskies. He was also barely ever let out of his cage because of lack of time on the owner's part, which is why she was giving the ferret away. I don't think he was treated like this on purpose. It was the typical case of a well-meaning, but uneducated ferret owner. I took him home and got him started on Totally Ferret. I took him to the vet for shots and a checkup. I was worried that the hair loss could mean adrenal bad stuff, but it was determined to most likely be a combination of poor nutrition and spring shed. And that seems to be correct because after about two weeks of good food, he's growing hair back! He's also rapidly putting on weight. Now that he's had time to settle in and get used to his new home, I'm finding out he's a little klepto. My other weezils have become more specialized in their thievery, only stealing certain things. But Travis will take anything that's not nailed down. Right now, I'm missing 1.5 pairs of shoes, the TV remote, a stuffed platypus, some fuzzy dice, almost every sock I own, and my '63 VW Bug. I haven't integrated him in with the other weezils yet. I'm waiting until he gets a little more meat on his bones first, cuz I know Insanity will beat the tar out of him when I introduce them. Well I'm off to go search for my missing items (not really, I'm at work so I can't but it seemed like the proper closing statement for this post). May all you bald spots grow hair, Limejello & The Weezils of Doom "Ferrets are great, what other pet folds neatly in half for easy storage" --me [Posted in FML issue 2342]