hi, I know that there has been alot of discussion about hair loss on the tail; but I probably haven't been paying attention. Here goes, anyway: my Lucy, who carries a diagnosis of insulinoma, has been on Prednisone every other day since late March, and has been playing and dooking and being a wild woman all the while. Well, she is still playing and dooking and is my wildest craziest baby; but she is losing the hair on her tail. The vet took hair samples for culture, skin scrapings on her tail and looked at it under a ultraviolet light. He says it is either skin related or she is having a cushingoid reaction to the prednisone. I guess ferrets can develop Cushings' disease too. If they have to cut back on the prednisone, what will happen? I would appreciate anyone who might have been through this to email me, and thanks. Now...if I were a ferret, the first thing I would do...... is to put everything that I considered mine in a hideyhole so that my kids wouldn't get to it! I would also consider biting my neighbors on their ankles! (some people maybe do deserve that, at least!) Thanks, Sharon and the gang of four: Echo, Tally, Toby and Lucy too. [Posted in FML issue 3151]