Safety tips for dogs and cats often apply also to ferrets, and ferrets have their own added tips. If you like fruitcake remember that raisins, grapes and currents in large enough amounts have cause acute renal (kidney) failure in ferrets, dogs, and cats for an unknown reason with may possible causes so far studied (Amounts may vary among individuals but some ferrets have been killed or almost killed by as few as 7 raisins and ferrets DO stash raisins). http://www.aspca.org/pet-care/poison-control/people-foods.aspx http://www.aspca.org/pet-care/pet-care-tips/thanksgiving-safety-tips.aspx http://www.aspca.org/pet-care/pet-care-tips/holiday-safety-tips.aspx http://www.aspca.org/pet-care/pet-care-tips/cold-weather-tips.aspx 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) On change for its own sake: "You can go really fast if you just jump off the cliff." (2010, Steve Crandall) [Posted in FML 7249]