I wrote the FML over a week ago concerned about my ferret having diabetes. My little panda of almost 4 1/2 years old, Sarah has been confirmed with diabetes. She has been on insulin, Humulin NPH, 2x daily, since Wednesday and on a special diabetic cat food by Purina called DM which I am grateful for that she loves. At first she was sleeping all the time but I have noticed her awake more often and a little more active. She drinks tons of water. Her quality of life seems to be the same for which I am grateful and she is such a wonderful little patient. She just sits there while I inject her with the insulin. I cannot THANK YOU PEOPLE on the FML enough for writing me with so much information about diabetes and about your experiences with your ferrets. I THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH! This list is WONDERFUL when you have a problem, people come together and help out! What a wonderful group of people. Before I posted on the FML, everything I had heard about diabetes in a ferret was doom and gloom. After posting and receiving emails, I could not believe all the good news! I told my vet and gave her the info and we are on our way to treating Sarah. Sarah goes back in a week for another glucose curve test to see where she is with her sugar level, etc. We will adjust her insulin or try a new one till we get it right. My vet has not decided yet whether I will be testing with a blood glucose meter or urine test strips, will know after the next test. My heart goes out to all of you who have lost babies. My sincere condolences. May it help knowing all of us on this list honestly care and know the horrible feeling of losing one. I have some new ferret angels of different colors (including chocolate sable and siamese) and a new item called the Ferretfly which is a Ferret fairy. My husband has put them on Ebay. You can take a peek by clicking on these links or going to Ebay and Click on search and go to "by seller" and type in name, minkey98. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3691669013 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3691913041 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4316280591 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3691539809 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3691670997 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3691668351 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4316147989 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3691911871 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3691541093 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4316278005 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3691667600 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3691884323 Eleanor, Donald and the 11 fuzzies [Posted in FML issue 4592]