I hope and pray Sprinkles pulls through, and gets much better. I'm not sure if you had researched it or not, if it would have made any difference. I've always known to separate the two, but only learned recently that a ferret that has never had the slightest bit of a reaction to a distemper vaccination can end up having one the next time, or the next... and so on. You allowed the vaccination in an attempt to protect and care for Sprinkles, thinking you were doing what was right, and what was best. You couldn't have known. Canine Distemper in a ferret is, or almost always is fatal. I think there MIGHT be one case of survival, and am not certain that it was, indeed, distemper. I just wanted to let you know that I care, and that I so hope Sprinkles makes a full recovery. Sonya The hospital bit reminds me of my little one when she was in the hospital, under different circumstances. And the name Sprinkles reminds me of a little sable female I saw and wanted in a pet store back in '98. I never got her, but visited often. She had tiny white 'sprinkles' all over the bridge of her nose, her cheeks, and on her forehead. I didn't get her because she had a brother and they seemed very attached to one another. I wasn't ready for three, and didn't want to separate them. I had already named her Sprinkles :) [Posted in FML issue 2958]