Hi Everybody - Here's my heartstopping ferret story for the week. We went out to dinner Sunday and we left in such a hurry that I accidentally left the bedroom door open. (The ferrets have the run of the house when we're home, and occasionally when we're not, except for the bedrooms where we recently had new carpeting installed). When we got home, it looked like an earthquake had struck. My dresser had been knocked over. It was on a slight incline, and tipped when 5 of the drawers were pulled out. Everything was out of the drawers and all the figurines and the coffee cup from on top were shattered. There were three ferrets staring at me in guilty fear. I scooped them up and made my husband come up. We lifted the shell, then each drawer, dreading the little corpse we'd find, but miracle of miracles, no one was under it. I don't know how they did it - to knock it over they'd of had to open the drawers, so someone would have had to have been in the dresser when it fell. I'm just so glad they were all alright. The dresser has been moved. It's almost fallen over on me a couple of times too. I had a second, minor heart attack the next day with my first real bout of dead ferret syndrome. I've had mortally wounded and very sleepy ferret syndrome, but this was new. I naturally assumed undetected internal injuries had done the little guy in, until he yawned. Next time I'm going to put lipstick and a wig on him and take pictures. That'll teach him. On keeping ferrets out from under couches: we used broadcloth and tack boards from a carpeting store (for carpet installation) The tack boards come with a ton of little nails already in them, so you just need to put a couple big nails in to hold them in place against the broadcloth around the edge of the couch's underside. There are a couple nails in the boards the wrong way that you have to take out, but it's not hard. Wendy and Lug - don't look at me, I've been asleep in the cage the entire time Sonnet - They don't call me the incarnation of evil for nothing Haiku - Sorry, was that important to you? Paddington - Did I miss something? Ballad - We all lined up behind it and pushed. Jazz - Underwear, wonderful underwear, raining like manna from heaven!!! [Posted in FML issue 2798]