All of the stories of escapes, etc. reminds me of Lily when she was just a tiny little kit (she's nearly 5 now). She was always a challenge to find. She was my second baby, and, though I knew all of Lucy's hidey holes, Lily was a new challenge (as each new ferret is). One time, I looked and looked for her and then started hearing a strange noise. We kept our gas grill inside the Florida room at that time (not when cooking, of course) and Lily had somehow managed to get into it and I found her standing on the cooking surface like a slab of meat! She did it another time also. I never have figured out how she did that because the lid was down and it didn't look like there was enough room to squeeze in there. To make it more interesting, Lily is an albino and had crawled up through a dirty, nasty grill. She was a sight to see! Another time, my husband called me at work and said, "I ran by the house and I put Lily in the cage". I said "EXCUSE ME, what do you mean". He said when he came in the front door she came running down the hall to greet him. The little booger had escaped from her cage!!! It had two springy locks on the door and I got tired of messing with them so I had taken one off and put the other in the center. Well, the other latch went back on that day. Champ is the Master of Masters. He's my first boy and he is ALL boy! He can get into more things than you could ever imagine. Just yesterday, he climbed to the top of some shelves in the Florida room and was having the time of his life destroying the one remaining live plant in the house. It looks pretty sad. He's conquered the top closet shelves no matter what I do. There is no way for him to get up there but he does. I even cleaned all the closets out a while back to try to foil his adventures. He still can do it. I never catch him until I start hearing noise and he's already up there having the time of his life slinging things down to the others. I shuddered when people talked about climbing the brick on the fireplace. I immediately deleted that issue so he wouldn't get any ideas. Katharine Lily, Lany, Blaze, and Champ [Posted in FML issue 2360]