greetings and *dooks* , everybody - time to introduce my clan...i'm Pearl from Buffalo, NY, and besides my husband ( indulgent sweety ) and 3 boys ( demonspawn lol ) we have 4 fuzzbutts.... Starbuck - MF sable boy, a college kid's impulse buy 2 weeks before school started back up...my furry sweetheart. Sumara - MF girl, still pondering her color..light chocolate body, white bib/face/kneepads and 3 white toes on one front paw...instead of a stripe on her head she has 4 dashes...she's our Petite Escape Artiste, able to squeeze thru the bars on their midwest cage even after passing her 1st birthday... Smitten - MF sable mitt boy, our "anniversary gift" last year...( hubby was picking up dog food, and sent me back the next day to look at him...said "he looked so lonely" ...me baaad influence, hehehe ) also called Fatboy, he's the biggest fuzzbutt at 3#... Spiral, cinnamon girl (formerly called Latte') from Scarlett's Happy Dookers...same age & size as Sumara, came home from a ferret show with me last march ( she crawled inside my sweater, down my sleeve and bit my arm...how could i *not* bring her home? lol ) she's gotten much better about that ( kept trying to drag me off and stash me under the microwave cart...) and the rest of the clan...7 cats ( Domino, Dante, Olivia, Chloe - unamused by ferrts, and Rufio, Elvis & Baby, who think the fuzzies are awesome ) and 2 dogs, Raisin ( who begs to be let back outside when the fuzzbutts are out playing, cuz they chase him around) and Loki, old husky/shep with past history of "not playing well with small animals", so he doesn't come inside when the slinkies are out having playtime. i first found out about the FML around oct/98 - when i brought sumara home for starbuck, i also found a copy of Modern Ferret, which i think mentioned online sources... now its a daily ritual (somewhere between the older kids going off to school and before the 3 yr old wakes up...) anyhoo...time for a caffiene refill and tickle some furries... :-) dook*dook, everyone Pearl & clan [Posted in FML issue 2899]