I think this person needs a pile of cute ferret photos sent in, including notes that ferrets are not wild (domesticated for over 2,500 years), and are intelligent members of Order Carnivora who tend to often enough require a good bit of costly vet care. http://www.cuteoverload.com/ -- Sukie (not a vet) Ferret Health List co-moderator http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/ferrethealth FHL Archives fan http://ferrethealth.org/archive/ replacing http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org International Ferret Congress advisor http://www.ferretcongress.org [Posted in FML issue 5180]