I had to add my two cents on the adrenal issue.  My male ferret Mingus
is a MF ferret and will be six in July.  He was going in to have a tooth
pulled and I asked my vet if while he was under anesthetic could he please
check for adrenal disease.  The only thing that made me think he might
have adrenal problems was a bald spot on the top of his head about the
size of a dime and a slightly enlarged spleen.  No other sympoms.  Nice
full coat (except for his head), great weight, no pee problems, nothing.
My vet removed an adrenal tumor the size of a ping pong ball on the left
side (which I got to keep part of after pathology was done) and did
cryosurgery on the right also another large tumor.  The pathology came
back as it being a carcinoma.  Adrenal disease like everything else in
ferrets is different in each and every ferret, so if you question if it
might or might not be check with your vet.
 
Also, if you need a great vet to do adrenal surgery or anything else to
your fuzzy I highly recommend Dr. Dan Beer in Columbus, Ohio
(614)252-4353.  He did the surgery on my boy and no problems.  He even
did the right (cryosurgery) and got all the tumor around the vena cava.
 
Kay
[Posted in FML issue 3807]