As many of you know, I have a rather large ferret family. ;-) The only fussing I see in our group (which are free roam) is pointed towards some of the adrenal ferrets. When we have no adrenal ferrets, we have a very quiet household. I'm guessing that the adrenal ferrets are excreting a different odor and a very few of the others find this odor offensive. Of course the bullys pick up on the adrenal ferrets even before they are showing symptoms so it is sometimes difficult to figure out why there is a problem. Another interesting observation is that the adrenal ferrets that exhibit the mating behavior aren't picked on at all. So could that be that those ferrets are creating excess testosterone and the others are creating excess estrogen? We've not run adrenal panels because of the cost, but it would be interesting to learn if others have observed the same behavior. Oh, I guess I should tell that we have one ferret, Desiree, that was an only ferret for many years and she doesn't like other ferrets and thinks that anyone within seeing distance needs to be screamed at. She is the exception in our home. It really is quite amusing to watch her and the reactions of the others. Some veer off like they were going in the other direction anyway and a couple accept the challenge and end up rolling her, which she doesn't take very well. All and all, no one gets hurt, well other than their feelings maybe. BTW, we've got 5 going in for adrenal surgery on Thursday. Please think good thoughts that they all do well (Frosty, Rascal, Dancer, Swiffer, and Spook). I'll be off-line from Wednesday at 4:30pm till Monday at 8am. If anyone needs me, feel free to call me at home 785-456-8337. Warm hugs to all. Troy Lynn Eckart Ferret Family Services http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~sprite/ffs.html http://www.geocities.com/Petsburgh/Haven/5481/ Please sign up to support our charity http://www.iGive.com/html/ssi.cfm?cid=46&mid=58395 [Posted in FML issue 2982]