Hello! Well, I don't post too much because I hate having to do it anon, but I have to protect my furzables here in CACA land. Well, I've been feeling more and more worried about my ferts having reactions to their shots. We have 4, and none of them have ever had any reaction other than lethargy, but I've heard that the more shots they receive throughout their lifetime, the greater the chance becomes for a bad reaction. 3 of our ferts are getting their annual boosters tomorrow, and I'm hoping it will be OK, but I especially worry about my oldest at 6 who just had successful adrenal surgery in March. One vet said that realistically ferts probably only need their kit boosters, and then 1 to 2 annual boosters after that to protect them over their lifetime; and that the reasons for the continuing annual boosters are more political due to the fear of rabies and all that silly nonsense. I figure that my oldest has had 8 or so boosters since kithood, and my others are around 3 so they've each had about 5 or so boosters. According to the vet, this is already more than enough. So, lately I've been debating between the choice of continuing the boosters and risking bad reactions, or not continuing the boosters and risking the chance (however unlikely) that someone would actually get scratched or bitten and take the full course of action, potentially subjecting my fuzzies to a fatal rabies test. Sigh........ I know I only have limited knowledge, and other vets may have varying opinions about the reactions and protection, so I wanted to see if there were any other thoughts on this? As far as inconvenient poops, we've found that if we clean up the area, then sprinkle a handful of food there, the ferts tend to leave it alone. Sometimes they go outside the perimeter of where the food has been sprinkled, and you have to replace the food sometimes because they eat it. You also would probably want to clean it up when you have company over, but that's a lot easier than cleaning the poopie up! Also, if you have light carpet, you might want to check that the oil from the food doesn't stain the carpet, then again the poopies do that too! We ended up buying our own upright semi-steam cleaner, which works great! Also, our neighbor gave us some left over vent duct, and it's clear just like the ferret freeways except it's about twice the diameter. Well, the fluffs absolutely went nuts because now they can go inside of it and have room the jump on each other, etc. They still love their original ferret freeway too, but this one is something NEW! Woo Hoo! O.K. one cute story and then that's it! One of our ferrets, Silk, likes to open my bottom drawer where I keep my workout clothes, and then fall asleep there. Well, every so often my husband and I would find Silk in the second drawer up where I keep my underwear. Yesterday, my husband found Silk in my bottom drawer with the work out clothes, but he apparently had also been in the second drawer up, because he had pulled some of my underwear down into the bottom drawer. I guess he prefers sleeping in my underwear, and he got tired of climbing up to the second drawer, so he just pulled some underwear down with him! There he was looking up at us from his snuggled in position thru my underwear, like "What now, I'm trying to take a nap, do you mind?!" Sheesh, talk about a panty raid!!! :-) Anita P.S. I hope Trevor Ka-Boing! (with the explanation point) is doing well. That's a great name, and I loved that post!!!! Of course, I hope everyone's fuzzies are doing great, and my thoughts are with all of those that aren't feeling so hot! [Posted in FML issue 2365]