To Paula and Matt, who can feel Charlottes heart beating right through her chest
 
      I don't think that you have anything to worry about here.  My suggestion
is that the next time you take her to the vet, have the vet give her heart a
good listening to.  Some ferrets can have such heart murmurs that you can feel
the trill where the heart is close to the chest.  But, for the most part, it
is just due to the individual build of the ferret, the amount of fat
cushioning the heart in the chest, and other anatomical differences between
ferrets.
 
       Bruce Williams, DVM                 Department of Veterinary Pathology
       [log in to unmask]         Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
       (202) 782-2600/2602                 Washington, D.C.  20306-6000
[Posted in FML issue 1088]