They are becoming a fashionable plant to have but are highly toxic and very interesting for animals. Death can happen in just hours so they need rapid treatment before their livers fail. Many of them are NOT labelled as being sago palms, just labelled as being a cycad or a "palm". http://news.vin.com/VINNews.aspx?articleId=15474 Images of the plant so that you can avoid it: http://fransenengineering.com/community/wp-content/uploads/sagopalm.jpg http://ag.arizona.edu/pima/gardening/aridplants/Cycas_revoluta.html 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 6666]