Hi!, it took me awhile to write this because I miss Cherokee so much. She was only 3 1/2. And she was the fattest ferret you ever saw (4lbs). So chubby, she would roll over when she tried to wash herself. She was a big goof!. Even tho she made Us laugh, she was not a nice ferret. She was a nose, hand and toe biter! And when she bit you she meant it! But I loved her anyway. She was one of those Canadian ferrets. Not a good attitude. Well, she began to have those darn "seedy" stools. No blood, diarreah. Nothing else. Just undigested stools. I had her and her "samples" to 3 Vets.. She was given every drug you could imagine. From amoxy to carafate to the ulcer combo. She began to lose weight, I was getting very worried. One Vet said seedy stools are normal!!. But she still ate with gusto, and still tried to bite my nose! [posted in 2 parts.. combined here. BIG] Well, thank God Dr. Susan Orosz, came to Toledo from the University of Tennessee. She did a barium X-ray on her, and also mentioned that her Lymph nodes were very swollen. Things the other Vets never suggested. She wanted to do exploratory the next day. The barium just wasnt passing all the way thru. I thought maybe my big "Garbonzo Bean" just ate something bad, or had a hairball? I dropped her off the next day. Never to see her alive again. She had cancer of the piloric valve. Stomach cancer, and it was bad...Plus the start of insulinoma. The Vet said recovery would be long and hard. If at all. I never got to say "Goodbye". So please, You know your ferrets better than some Vets do. Dont let things go to long. Its so important to find a good, knowledgeable, ferret Vet. Thanks for listening, Joan Vick and the 8 Toledo Terrors (ferrets since 1977) [Posted in FML issue 2957]