Noodles at his best, never using his brains. Noodles is scared of the hoover. When you put it on, he'll do a 10 metre dash to the nearest possible hide away. Once upon a time he didn't have one close by. We were cleaning the house one day (Mum, don't faint, it's true) at our previous home and I wanted to make sure that there weren't any ferrets in the dishwasher. They're so good at mimicing coffee mugs. Anyway, I can't put the dishwasher on until I see for myself that the ferrets are somewhere else. So I went looking for them. Tigger was easy enough, she was fighting the big fierce hoover, but I couldn't find Noodles anywhere. I asked Jaakko to help and after a while I heard him calling for me. I went to the sauna where he was staring at the stove. He said he could swear he heard something from within it. Okay, a small description should be given at this point. The stove isn't that big, about 50cm x 40cm x 30cm, it's electric, it doesn't have any ferret size holes or spaces in the bottom and it's full of stove stones. So I didn't believe Jaakko at first. But I started to listen to the stove and, low and behold, there was some kind of scratching coming from inside. I tried feeling inside the stove from the bottom, but I couldn't find any holes big enough for my hand to fit in. We started taking out all the stones and I noticed that the scratching stopped. Okay, panic! We finally got to the bottom and bumped into a grid. And there it was, a little pink nose poking through the grid. Next problem, you can't get the ferret out from underneath and the grid is bolted into the stove. What do you do? Well, we took the stove apart. The things you'll do for you pet. Poor Noodles, in a state of total shock by the time we got him out. His eyes were glassy and he just lay there in my arms, stiff as a stick. He got over it eventually, about 20 minutes and a few treaties later. Now when we put the hoover on he hides under the bed no matter how far a distance he has to run to get there.