We all are familiar with black holes. They are locations in our universe in which their gravitational forces are so great that everything is attracted to them and forever disappear. Nothing can escape their gravitational forces. Nothing. Not even light. Ferrets, I have discovered, have their own parallel universe and their own black holes. Everything a ferret can carry is attracted to their black hole and disappears (almost) forever. Every so often we humans in our universe "discover" a ferret black hole and find all those things we thought disappeared forever. Unlike a human black hole, we can recover things from the ferret black hole. This revelation came to me this morning when I chanced to move something deep within our closet and found all those things we marked off as lost forever. Layla, our little sable, certainly had been busy! Toys, carpet fuzz, bits of paper, two dried peach pits (where they came from is still a mystery ), and bits of this and that. Anyway, that black hole's location is known so we can keep an eye for accumulated "lost" items. The question is, how many more black holes does Layla have? Al Wiebe [Posted in FML issue 2804]