This fascinates me... and I eagerly await postings on this... I am interested in status reports such as what Kat Parsons gave more so than any contraversy or tiresome debate. I personally have never experienced adrenal disease in any of my pet store bought ferrets since I was a kid. BUT I have not had any past 5 years of age due to a traaagic fire, and due to family taking in my babies when I went to college . I have had one catastrophic illness in a pet store babe... he bled internally, massively and suddenly for unknown reasons at the time all before one year of age. I had one albino boy get very weak, and thin, and old "before his time" by 5 years of age (he was raised as a kit from a pet store). We lost him in the first of the nineties...before adv and such. He may have had undxed insolima. who knows. So that's 2/9 petstore bought kits that had unknown early deaths. I have one shelter babe currently and I will be curious to see how things turn out for him in the long run. Wolfy Please visit: http://www.geocities.com/wolfysluv/ for information on deafness and ferrets: http://www.geocities.com/wolfysluv/deaf.html take a peek at upcomming "so you have allergies": http://www.geocities.com/wolfysluv/allergies.html [Posted in FML issue 3144]