Dooks All - This is my first post, though I've talked to some of you via e-mail. I was innocently buying ferty food when I rescued two of the sweetest baby ratlings from becoming feeders yesterday (I'm a sucker, I guess). I don't plan to introduce them to my fert until they are bigger (if at all/ever), although they are temporarily in the same room in eyeshot of each other and there seems to be no antagonism when The 'Squack (the fuzzy) is running about. A girl I was chatting with in the store has 2 ferts and many pet rats and says one fert hates them, one naps with them. Since I have read past posts about feeding ferts live mice (GRRR!!/YUKK!!) this seems like a borderline issue and I wonder if anyone has had experience with this kind of cohabitation. Blessings, Corbie ("I love the smell of Bitter Apple in the morning"), PipSquack Tatu ("Yeah, I gots a foot fetish, wanna make sumptin outta it?"), and Arlecchino Rex and and "As Yet Unnamed", the ratties [Posted in FML issue 2624]