Hello everyone! Thought I should drop a line from "behind the Zion curtain" and let you know how we all are. Well, Snowball is up to his old tricks. He has been escaping from his cage on a fairly regular basis and stashing things, odd things, in his hidey hole. Ironically, today I FOUND his little treasure trove. Ironic, because I was just thinking of replacing one of the things the little weasel hid. I have been missing my pager since we got back from our trip to Missouri in NOV. Now, this would be a minor thing, but with my work schedule, it was a real inconvienience for me, not to mention my family. Angel looks under the couch today (now, mind you, I've looked under there myself, and cleaned under there, at least five times since then........) and says "Mom, Snowy's got you pager, and it's under the couch." I moved the couch, and, she was right, there was my pager with a ferret attatched. A red eyed, poofy tailed, kleptomaniac ferret. Also under there was: one of Angels 101 Dalmation slippers, one of my husbands slippers, and a container of Certs super powered breath mints. Now, the only thing I can figure is the little s#@t has been moving these things from hidey hole to hidey hole forever, in the effort to keep me from finding them. The only NEWLY missing thing was the breath mints. Also, last night, Snowball kept escaping and going into my sons room. Andy went to sleep with his walkman CD player playing, earphones in ears (probably listening to Tupac Shakur........). He woke up when he felt like something was trying to rip his ears off. Andy said the part that disturbed him the most was this awful pain in his ears (I guess if you pull those things out the right way they don't hurt, but if you try to pull them straight out both sides at once, it can be painful) wakes him up, he opens his eyes, and right on his chest is Snowball, red eyes and poofy tail, hissing and dooking because he can't get the earphones free. In the moonlight, it was frightening. He is convinced that Snowball was trying to take his CD player and hide it under the sofa too. Perhaps Snowy was setting up and planning on inviting Pookie out to a "get together" under the sofa? I mean, he had breath mints for fresh breath, a pager (so Pookie could contact him), tunes, some comfy slippers (one for each). What else would he need? I guess food and water, but he probably wouldn't start stocking those and treats until just before she arrived. This "Dirty White Boy" of mine is starting to scare me. Catherine, Pato, Snowball, Hubert and Elsie "Behind The Zion Curtain" [Posted in FML issue 2572]