Hello. My name is Dipstick. Also known as Dip, Dippy or dips*it and I am an MF Ferret. I was born in April 1996, and have grown (in my opinion) into a fine specimen of ferrethood, all 4.8 lbs of finely tuned gib. Yes, I chose my life from before I was even conceived. I chose my mom and pop, and I chose to be raised for the first few weeks of my life in a little cage. Alas, I have sinned. I forced my owners to fall in love with me at the pet store. They were an easy mark. I tried to stop myself and couldn't! I HAD TO BE CUTE! I couldn't help myself! I really really wanted to be good, and make sure that nobody would buy me, after all, I was in a pet store. But I couldn't help myself! I had to do it!! That was three years ago, and I still feel the shame of that first meeting. I really did a good job on those poor people. In fact, I'm with them still. Actually, I did a real great job of conning them, cause they've taken me back to that pet store loads of times to visit. They even found out about a shelter place for homeless ferrets. They're the ones that don't sin and con people into taking them. They've taken me to visit a couple of times, and once, even brought back a friend!! I feel kinda guilty though, cause I conned 'em in the first place. It's so awful me coming from that pet store place you know. Lots of people hate me cause I came from MF, but at least my family forgave me. They didn't really even seem to notice I'd done wrong!! But I didn't want to tell them what I did, in case they got mad. So, I joined MF Anonymous just to tell everyone how bad I felt for choosing to come from MF in the first place, and tricking my family into buying me from the pet store, and taking me back and educating people. I promise I won't do it again! Not that my family would let me, cause they love me anyway, regardless of my history. Signed, Dipstick [Posted in FML issue 2538]