Hi! i was reading about Jester, and i thought of something to try, i am no expert i only have two ferrets Liza and Truls wich i bought at the same petstore and only one month apart, but maybee if you put Jester and only one ferret ( the one most likely to treat Jester kindly) in a small room, and you sitting on the floor with Jester so he can gaine confidence, repeat every day,increasing the time always with the same ferret untill they play and maybee sleep together, now that he has one buddy it will be easyer to face playing with two ! kind of integrate the rest of the ferrets one at the time with Jester rather than integrating Jester with your other group,, i can imagine that this will take some time, Jester having been the only ferret he probably does'nt know that he is a ferret !! i would suggest trying out a room that is neutral to all ferrets if there is such a room, maybee i am just blabbing and maybee it is what you are already trying to do, i hope it works out, i may be facing the same problem when ferret math hits me, i want to adopt a ferret that needs a good home, ( the more the merryer...??!!) however i am building my case, since i am the only ferret obsessed in our household, and my family just tolerate whenever i start the procedures to let them out to play every day, they get about five hours a day when everyone is at home but whenever i can they are out all day, what makes me think they are not suffering in any way (all the postings re free rooming versus cage) is that wether they are out all day or not, they usually find a place to sleep within three hours of being let out, wether i am in the room with them or not. i love to play with them , and the most precious moments are when i am holding and loving my babies and they go to sleep in my arms :) Their personalities are so different!! Liza was a heavy biter, she demonstrated it right away at the pet store where we bought her, but we where told that they are all the same!! that socializing and training, would do it, later i realized that they were reffering to nipping, and that is not what Liza did!! she drew blood almost every time, and i read somewhere that signs of aggression were round big eyes and licking their lips in a nervous way, i believe it to be true and Liza used to do that a lot.... no amount of "nip training" did us any good, only patience, love, and soft talk seemed to have any effect. now she only nips in play, and i get so emotionall when we are playing and i can tell she really tryes to be gentle with this poor human..! and when she puts her little paws on my leg for attention and does'ent get it right away she bites the back of my leg just a little...Truls on the other hand has never closed his mouth around the skin of a human (unless very very gently in play) he is so trusting that nothing bad could ever happen to him, that a human could ever hurt him has never crossed his mind, he is my ferret ambassador , i let children hold him and people who always have thought of ferrets as vicious and wild realize that it is not necessarily true. althoug i never let anyone hold Liza...(except her Vet who now knows to wear big gloves....hehehe...) she has a very special place in my heart, althoug i love them both sooooooo muuuuuuuch!!! their personalities remind me very much of the charakters in Pooh Bear, Truls is Poo Bear and Liza is Rabbit.. i realize i am babbling a lot, i am still looking for ferret loving people in Las Vegas to share my passion with, i am sure there is someone out there !! please send me an e-mail!! My Love to all Fuzzies and their Humans Josephine Trulsie Poo and Liza Rabbit=20 [Posted in FML issue 2409]