Hi everyone! It's finally winter up here in Minnesnowta. Brrrrr! Today I was in PetCo to buy stocking stuffers for the girls and noticed a magazine on the rack by the name of "Fuzzy Creatures Quarterly". It was featuring ferrets. I looked thru it and noticed a photo of prairie dogs. Under the photo was written "prairie dogs are distantly related to ferrets". I do believe that prairie dogs are actually rodents and are the main food souce for ferrets (black footed). I think they have their facts a bit out of whack. Am I right? I went to the Megamall (Mall of America) yesterday to X-mas shop and found a store that had ferret things for people. I bought a "ferret crossing" sign and a pair of beautiful gold ferret earrings. I've never seen those before. I bought two plush toy otters that look an awful lot like ferrets, for my girlfriends twin daughters that LOVE playing with Lucy & Greta. ( I also got them each a ferret coloring book). By the way, my two fuzzies have no interest in my Christmas tree. I put Greta up in the branches and she looked at me like "what do you think I am a squirrel or something?" They did like the tree skirt, tho. Have a wonderful, happy X-mas! May Santa bring you all everything warm and fuzzy! Barb and the ever-lovin' fuzzies; Lucy (those ferrets you brought home look awfully stuffy! Maybe they are really prairie dogs!) Greta (Mom, don't you know ferrets don't climb trees?) [Posted in FML issue 2530]