Gordon, Steve and I have had so many ferrets get through horrid medical problems, or retain a much longer good quality of life during terminal health problems thanks to using Hills a/d when they have been ill. Given that we've had ferrets in our family for about 27 years now and even early on had two with medical problems (an unspayed, retired breeder who had an eye bitten through by a mounting male and who developed infected scent glands, and a ferret from a fur farm who started life with a compromised liver) so we've kid of gotten used to things that have worked wonderfully for our four footed family through the years. Sukie (not a vet) Recommended ferret health links: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/ http://ferrethealth.org/archive/ http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/ http://www.ferretcongress.org/ http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html [Posted in FML 6043]