With respect to Ferrial's behavior toward Fidget and the reluctance of these other ferrets to share bedding, nesting material with Fidget, may I suggest that you consider the suggestions I made to Cindy Smith towards enhancing ferret compatibility. I also would be inclined to remove all the bedding and leave nothing in the cage except the carpeting for at least 2 weeks. This will mean that material possessing individual scent will be absent. Possibly then any "territoriality" senses that the dominant ferrets would normally maintain would be removed. The ferrets would be forced to sleep on the cage carpeting in a random fashion, possibly changing locations throughout the night. Since the apparent security of their ancient tunnel den feeling would be gone (the feeling of the cloth over their bodies which I like to equate to the feel of the tunnel, den walls) they will be inclined to make up the void, this absence of a tactile sense, by more freely associating with each other and sleeping intertwined. After 2 weeks and all the removed nest/sleeping cloth is thoroughly washed and dried, then bit by bit restore the cloth to the cage. Hopefully in this manner, maybe some or all of the ferrets will be a bit more tolerant. For Damon Hudoc and his instinctive tendency, his innate sense of animalism, I say kudos. Please do feed to your ferret(s) live feeder mice (the kind reptile breeders prefer that are mice bred just for this purpose) and if affordable, three times a week. I would suggest that any partially eaten mouse or other feeder animal be immediately removed from the ferret and placed in a freezer for presentation to the ferret to consume later. Baby chicks and baby rabbits also are very good. As far as fish are concerned I feed salmon as a sometimes additive ingredient to our LUMPS to our ferrets. The salmon is free from the local supermarket and consists of the fish left-overs after fillets are cut away leaving the meat encrusted spine, head, tail and fins. After cooking the fish left-overs in a pressure cooker (bones are soft and can be cut easily with scissors) I grind them with skim milk in a blender, pour off into individual containers, seal and then freeze for later individual addition to my LUMPS. I think that once you start making home cooked additions of people food to your ferret's diet, and specifically LUMPS, you will find that your ferrets are quite healthy, they never develop ECE nor coccidiosis, are flea free and push out poop like four inch long cigars. So easy to pick up and of very low odor. Use of LUMPS at the earliest stage of kit development postpartum is quite remarkable in that you can bypass the biting stage by transitioning the kit from its sucking reflex to its licking reflex. Of course, by making your own home-made daily ferret soup (LUMPS) - it takes me about 2 and 1/2 hours every day to make 3 gallons of LUMPS and feed it to our 40 to 50 ferrets at a rate of 6 oz per ferret per day-you know exactly what your ferrets are eating. There are some other advantages to making ferret soup and these positive elements are described in my pamphlet that I've posted on Ferret Advertising List No. 11. Since our shelter houses such a large population of ferrets, the cost savings we realize by making our own home-made ferret food LUMPS is vital to our success, eventhough we supplement LUMPS with kibble dried ferret/cat, puppy chow and cooked chicken and turkey.We know that what ever may be lacking in the dried food we more than make up for it with LUMPS. End of 2nd part (See 3rd part following) [Posted in FML issue 2387]