Hello, I'm a ferret. I'm writing because I'm very irate over a matter that has come to my attention. You humans use the word "litter" to describe a group of ferrets from the same pregnancy and also to describe the contents of the boxes in which we poop. I find this highly offensive. Are you trying to say that a batch of ferrets babies is no better than a smelly box of offal? Do you think that ferrets should be put in the bottom of a box and pooped on? Do you think we are nothing more than absorbent pieces of clay and wood? I became very incensed when I learned of this. Just when I begin to think humans are not that bad, I learn about something like this. I demand you stop this practice at once or us ferrets will start referring to a batch of humans as toilets. Signed, One Irate Ferret [Posted in FML issue 2475]