You asked so: Hanan Caine is at St. Marks Veterinary Hospital now; it's in the East Village. He's the vet who helped us cope with the numerous health problems of deformed Ruffle who needed very special care, managed to perform major surgeries (multiple at the same time but essential) on Ruffie when she also had dilated cardiomyopathy, helped Meltdown have more than a year of extra time after her dilated cardiomyopathy with ventricular bigemini was discovered, safely performed a complicated right adrenalectomy on Hjalmar at age 8, found 'Chopper the Organic Helicopter's hidden hypertrophic cardiomyopathy even though that type usually is not found till late stages, etc. Our ferrets have always just plain LOVED him; he even borrowed Glueball and Meeteetse for a school education lecture and could barely talk for all of Glueball's kisses. He did exotics work at the AMC (also a place to find great exotics vets in NYC -- people like Ben Otten, Kathy Quesenberry -- yes, of the vet text, etc. and a place to which to donate for work to improve ferret vet knowledge and care) before coming out to this area, but left here to be near the center of his universe. He's a great guy and works his tail off to help critters. Besides, we've never found a better surgeon for survivability -- we NEVER lost a ferret to surgery with him and over the years there have been a LOT on quite a number of ferrets; as you see some were very difficult ones. The three most recent were Meeteetse's adrenal, Warp's insulinoma, and Scooter's paw reshapings due to his mother having partially eaten him after he was born. Great at finding hidden problems, too. so that they can be successfully tackled. [Posted in FML issue 2992]