I use Yesterday's News, which is newspaper pellets.  I get the bag that
says it's for cats because it's way cheaper than the one that says it's
for ferrets and they are the exact same thing with different pictures on
the bags.  I get a 35 pound bag for about $6 at PetSmart (WAAAAAYYYYY
cheaper than Petco).  I find it easy to clean up because it doesn't fall
apart easily.  It's also not very dusty so it doesn't irritate my fertys'
noses.  The only downside is that they also find it very fun to kick
around.
 
Diana, owned by Molly, Joey Ramone, and the recently deceased Murphy.
 
P.S. Murphy was only about a year-and-a-half when he passed away.  A
month-and-a-half before his first birthday, he swelled up really big like
a balloon with fluid and also lost most of his body weight.  I took him
to the vet and they x-rayed him, but couldn't see through the fluid.
They gave me prednisone and some type of liquid medication to give him
to make the fluid go away, which it did.  He also seemed to have more
energy, but was really skinny (down to about one-and-a-half pounds when
he used to weigh three).  In December, he hadn't gained any of his weight
back and actually seemed to have lost more and I noticed a lump in his
side.  I took him back to the vet and he was down to just over a pound
in weight and the vet said that she was surprised that he had lived this
long because she hadn't expected it when she saw him the first time.  I
asked her if she thought it could be a blockage, but she didn't think so.
She gave me more prednisone to try to shrink the mass, but she told us he
probably had only less than a month left.  He seemed to be getting better
with the prednisone; he would run to meet us at the door rather than just
laying around.  A couple weeks later, I noticed that he was pooping in
places he didn't normally poop and two days later he passed away.  Does
anyone know what might have caused this in case I ever have this happen
to a ferret again?  Maybe there was something else we could have done
that my vet didn't know about?
 
Thank you.
[Posted in FML issue 5204]