>My little Toby, 3 and half year male Albino has a wart like growth on the >side of his back foot. It's a pink bubble with a small crust on top. I >live in Jordan and no Vets here know anything about Ferrets. Can anyone >help with what this might be? Dear Nadine: Sounds lilke a skin tumor - tough to tell, because the warty part sounds like a sebaceous epithelioma, but the crusty part sounds like a mast cell tumor, the second most common. You can find out more about these tumors at my home page at http://www.afip.org, and there are pictures of them there too - take a look in the "What's New in Ferret Medicine" Powerpoint presentation... This is a case where a picture of the lesion would be worth a thousand words - I don't think we can get any more specific without a picture. At any rate, what you describe is something that I would suggest removing surgically and having a pathologist look at. Both of those tumors are benign, but its best to get it looked at. With kindest regards, Bruce Williams, DVM, DACVP [Posted in FML issue 3202]