Hi everybody My little Igor was put to sleep on 6th of December. He'd had a tummy full of blood stained fluid since August... There was up to 500g of fluid in his tummy. In the end he had problems breathing and looked like he really didn't feel well and didn't want to go on so we had him put to sleep. I'd asked my vet to do a *full* post mortem like Dr Williams had told me to. I thought that meant that the vets take tissue samples of all organs (even of the ones that look okay) and send them off to the lab. I'd been asking at the vets for over 2 weeks whether Igor's lab results had come back and then last Friday I was finally told that the vets hadn't sent anything off! I was really upset about that, I thought they'd automatically send tissue samples off... When Louise had done the post mortem, she phoned me and said that the pancreas was one big tumour (size of a big walnut or small satsuma) and parts of it had calcified and there were also tumours on the liver. She was 95% certain that the primary tumour was the pancreas. My question is: should the vets have sent tissue samples off when I asked for a full post mortem? Or do you have to tell the vets to send samples off if you want it doing? Are there different kinds of tumours that can happen in the pancreas? I mean stemming from different cells? Or was it okay for my vets to just have a look inside and not do anything else? Hope you can help me. Best wishes from Ulrike and Jilly, Jack, Bella, Tom, Mason, Baby, Dana, Fox, Reno, Rose, Jasmine, Barney and Spike Missing Angel, Hope and Igor West Wales Ferret Welfare http://www.ferretlove.freeserve.co.uk Last update 20/12/00 [Posted in FML issue 3280]