We found this about their larger distant cousins last night: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2894880/?tool=pubmed and <http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0011385> and then today Morney apparently found it wrong that we were eating vegetable curries and she first brought two pieces of Totally Ferret to me and put them on my foot while I was eating, and then she went and did the same for Steve. 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/ http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/ http://www.ferretcongress.org/ http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html all ferret topics: http://listserv.ferretmailinglist.org/archives/ferret-search.html "All hail the procrastinators for they shall rule the world tomorrow." (2010, Steve Crandall) [Posted in FML 6820]