On January 5th, our vet brought us a Dark eyed white youngster of about 3 months of age. Our vet was to euthanize this little one because he had a lower canine tooth that protruded from his mouth and was into his upper lip. She was to euthanize this little guy on orders of the pet store she does work for. Instead, she brought him to me and told me that she would pull the tooth when he was about 4 months old. She has since done that and he (Frosty) is a healthy 8 month old who weighs it at 4.5 pounds. He is a real sweetheart. He eats really well and appears to be very healthy. Toward the end of January, he developed loose stools and the vet found coccidia and Giardia in his stool sample. Needless to say he was put on the appropriate meds and the stools returned to normal. Two days after he was done with the meeds, he had the loose stools back. Again back on the meds and all the other ferrets in his cage were treated as well. Now nobody tested positive for the parasites and none of the others had loose stools. After the meds stopped, Frosty again had the runs. We put him on a 2 week regimen of amoxy and again everything was fine. Two days after we stopped the amoxy the runs were back. He just finished up a two week stint of baytril and amoxy. He is till on the amoxy for another two weeks and we will see if the runs return. The vet says that he may have inflammatory bowel disease and the only thing that will control that is prednisone in a very small dosage for the rest of his life. I hate to use this med but it may be the only thing that will keep this under control. Win and the horde about me [Posted in FML issue 3041]