>I saw a post on here a few days ago about someone's ferret who is deaf >and tends to scream occasionally, even if there's nothing wrong. We >think one of ours is deaf too- I'm just wondering if you figured this out >for yourself, or how do you know yours is deaf? This may have been my post even if it wasn't I am still going to try and answer you question since I have a deaf ferret. When we first got our baby Cleo her owner mentioned that he thought she might be deaf. After having her for seveal weeks we were pretty certain she was and our vet agreed. We knew this because nothing effected her when it came to noises. You can test your fuzzie seveal ways all of course involve using noise. I find that I can shake a ball that has a bell in it near her and she doesn't do anything or I can make a loud bang near her and she will not jump or anything but I think the one thing that pretty much told me she was deaf is when I could go in her room while she was sleeping and do anything and make any kind of noise and she would not wake up. She had to see me before she would get up or when I go in to let the other 2 out of their cage I have to gently put my hand on her so as not to startle and she will wake up. I think it is pretty much a process of elimination when trying to decide if you have a deaf ferret or not..................also one of the posters here has a great website you can visit regarding caring for deaf ferrets. Here is the site http://www.geocities.com/wolfysluv/deaf.html hope this has been of some help and please check out the above site it helped us a lot and I'm sure it will do the same for you :) DianeK,wiggles,cocoa,cleo and daddy too!!!! [Posted in FML issue 3149]