Howdy, Here's one of those you-can-never-be-too-safe tips. My apartment is developing an ant problem and as a solution I bought some of those ant bait traps. They're a little plastic thingies with ant poison inside that the ants are supposed to haul back to their houses and it kills them all. I was about to throw the packaging, when I though "Hey, maybe I should keep this cuz it lists the active ingredients." That way if one of the ferrets should get into it and you have to rush to the vet or call poison control, you will have the necessary info readily available. (No I don't put the ant traps down with the ferrets. I don't even put them in the same room as the ferrets. But we all know that there is no such thing as ferret proofed and if a ferret wants to get somewhere, he will.) This would probably be a good idea for any other poison-type stuff you have around. Actually the whole ant trap thing was a wasted effort. They didn't work. Oh well, I'm resigned to living with the ants and treating them like another pet. Right now I'm working on litter box training them. You wouldn't believe how hard it is to find Totally Ant food. The worst part was naming them all. Hector, Gertrude, Bob, Lucy, Raymond, Defy, Depend, Zeke, Clyde, Ralph, Defend, Rory, Elef, Herkimer, Comply, Fred, Suzy, Cly, Cecil, Decad............... May your ants be forever named, Limejello & The Weezils of Doom PS: Please realize that last paragraph was a joke. I don't want to be inundated with ant control remedies. "Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!" -- Marvin the Martian [Posted in FML issue 2380]