>Sorry, Tony, but we have had a number of elderly, ill, intact ferrets >surrendered to the shelter and we did find adrenal growths during >necropsy. I do suspect the lack of natural lighting cycles likely >caused their problems. In my opinion keeping ferrets intact, keeping them in natural light and feeding on as much raw meat as possible all go hand in hand to having healthy ferrets. What do you call elderly fetters? -- Please contact me I can be of any help, I am not a vet and in the past 30+ years none of my animals have visited my vet for anything other than routine check up. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/intact-ferrets/ Come see my ferrets http://www.geocities.com/houseferrets13uk/Tonys_Pets.html Some of our fund-raising events http://www.geocities.com/houseferrets13uk/Show.html http://www.webspawner.com/users/ferretwelfair/index.html http://www.headway.org.uk/ The brain Injury association The First Successful Libel Case http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/stor...1737001,00.html See my photos on Ringo: http://www.ringo.com/i.html?i=87784560x614999 Tony [Posted in FML issue 5218]