A dog picking up ferrets without damaging them is quite an image!

Our house is pretty sedate now. At 19 and 16, the girl cats aren't all that active. Maxie (see my avatar) is huge. He'd love to shred the dust covers on furniture, but he's too big to get under anything other than a dining room chair.

Yep, I'm the OCD one. DH is legally blind. He never wanted his home to look like a blind person lived there (i.e., all of the furniture just lining the walls), but the visuals are pretty much a mystery to him. He's very sensitive to texture and cares greatly about how things feel and sound. He wouldn't notice a shredded dust cover unless there was something that he felt with a foot or leg.