BTW, I can think of two -- retracted -- claims of 17 year old ferrets that have happened in ferret lists. One was a legitimate error by a sweet person in which one ferret's paper work got combine with that of another (UK). The other was a farmer playfully pulling the leg ( or as we say here now "pulling a Gordon") of a kind person who dearly loved ferrets but was relatively new to them at that time (NL). 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 6159]