Hi all: Let me tell you what I just went through. You may remember me posting about a a very sick ferret with a blockage the last few days. My baby almost needed surgery. At the vets, after a serious palpation of her stomach feeling for the blockage) we were arranging for surgery, she finally pooped for the first time in at least 4 days, right there in her carry-cage, in the vets office while we were talking. The vet and I searched the poop to see if the blockage was there and guess what. There was a hard piece of rubber the size of an aspirin in her poop. When we wiped it clean I realized what it was. When you open a dryer door there are usually 2 little rubber stoppers to keep the door from slamming too hard. My ferret must have worked one loose and ate it. I don't keep my ferrets in the laundry room but my washer and dryer are in the hall utility closet. They can't get behind there because I have blocked it off .When ever I am folding clothes from the dryer, my ferrets come arunnung to jump in the dryer with the warm clothes and crawl threw them and play. They are so funny and have so much fun.It always amuses me through a most boring chore. I am always very careful not to shut them in. I just never thought about them eating the stoppers. Now my dryer door shuts with a loud bang because I have removed the other stopper and threw it away. Rather a little noise than a ferret suffering from a blockage I thought everything was ferret proof. I guess a ferret owner can never be too careful. Best care for fuzzies, Sharon,(The human caretaker) Angel, (Thank God I can finally poop) Sukie, (Im so glad Angel's not sick any more) [Posted in FML issue 2464]