I read Sheila's post on the ferret attacking the kitten. It was so sad. I had to offer a prettier picture. At the time we found this kitten I had 2 ferrets. Scout a female and Max an albino male. Max was not your normal sweet ferret, he was more into <please, enough with the hugs, let me down so I can get to the good stuff>. But Max and Scout lived together happily. They had a 3 level home with a hammock up top that they adored and tons of t-shirts on the bottom for tunneling and taking naps in. My daughter found a kitten one day and we began nursing the little thing. Max zipped from the cage one day and carried the baby to the t-shirt pile and covered the kitten. We would take the kitten but Max wasn't happy until we gave it back. Once we knew he intended no harm, we let him have his baby. He would pull the baby into the hammock and then Scout and then himself. Then he would arrange Scout on one side of his baby and then he would curl around and over the other side. If the kitten tried to get up Max would lay him back down. When Max got up he would drag his baby down to the bottom and put the kitty to potty. He would sit there until the deed was done. If the kitty moved, he would sniff the box. If there was no fresh business he put the kitty back. If the kitty had pottied then Max would potty. The kitty would wait for Max. Then Max would drag kitty to the feed and they would all eat. If Scout had not come down yet, Max would "yell" for her. And kitty was not allowed to eat until Scout came down. When all was done Max would drag kitty back up top to snooze in the hammock and that goofy kitten would just hang from Max's mouth. I finally took Max's baby away from him when it reached 8 months old. I was afraid the kitten would be warped and Max would get hurt from bossing something so much bigger than him. Max was poisoned by one of my reject neighbors 3 months ago. He was 3. I also lost Beau, Belle, and Blossom to the poisoning but I still have my Scout who is about 6 now. I think the only reason I still have her is because the little hard head refuses to eat ANYTHING except Meow Mix. Since losing all of my babies I have teamed up with a woman and she helped me to finally convince Scout to give up the yuck food and now she will eat Iams. I never thought of mixing them until she accepted the new food, DUH. I also bought a male, Chrissy, who is about 12 weeks old now. Velma [Posted in FML issue 2327]