Hello, Saw the ? on ferret who appears to be chewing gum and have a similar problem. My 4 year old female ferret has been licking/swallowing/and chewing gum without anything in her mouth and sometimes is lethargic, since september. Vet#1 said it was a sore-throat and after a week on antibiotics she improved. A month later it returned - took her to vet#2 who did blood work (eliminated hypoglycmia) and said it was probably stomach ulcers. She was on amoxi and pepto for 2 weeks and improved for several months. In December the licking thing started a little and recently has become bad again along with her being lathargic. Took her to vet#3 who says she has enlarged lyph nodes that are causing the chewing/licking and thinks it could be lyphocomia(sp?) and wants to do a biopsy. She is now on antibiotics and predesone. My question is has anyone had a ferret with lyphocomia that did the licking/chewing thing? Has anyone found a definite reason for a ferret doing this? She still eats/sleeps/uses her litter box the same and has not lost any weight. Just has the licking/chewing/swallowing thing and lethargy. Please let me know if anyone has seen this before. Thankyou. [log in to unmask] [Posted in FML issue 2992]