Re: Calling Ferrets I have one fool-proof method to get Dervish out of hiding *fast* under every circumstance that has ever come up. She hides when the doorbell rings, popcorn pops, and when she's subjected to a B-A-T-H; sometimes it was quite hard to get her out of hiding. She would come when I squeezed the squeaky viscera toy, but that's been ferretted away somewhere. So the next best thing: Empty plastic soda bottles. Dervish goes absolutely *nuts* when she hears me thumping one, and will come out of even the deepest Sleeping-Not-Dead mode to get the bottle and hide it away. There are about thirty bottles hidden all over the house; this is an estimate, because I'm always finding new bottle deposits. And when one hidey-hole is invaded (my father cleaned them all out from behind the sofa once), she finds a new one. If she sees you looking under the bed, she moves all the under-bed bottles to the closet. And it's great fun to watch her lope away with a bottle held high. :-) Re: Cheweasels Dervish will have no truck with her new "Chewy-weasels", but my cat adores them. Re: Clear Ferret Freeway I finally bought the Sheppard and Green "All Clear Ferret Freeway", and am I glad I did! I've never seen her tail wag before, but it really gets going when she gets in that tube! I had an opaque tube for her before, which she liked, but not as much as this one. Besides, now I can see her enjoying herself! Re: Peanuts Will the FLO operative who is supplying Dervish with peanuts please stop? There are no peanuts in this house, so I know she's getting them from an outside source. (And yes, I *know* she's been eating peanuts; shall we say, "the proof is in the poopie"?) That goes for the mystery Fig Newtons I keep finding half-eaten under the bed, too. -(TX) Meghan and Dervish the WonderFerret ("But you'll never find my stash of butterscotch baking chips!") [Posted in FML issue 2732]