Hello to all the fuzzies out there! I'm having a problem that I'm hoping someone can help me with. On Thursday, I took Scooter Elliott in for his shots, we were gone for 30 minutes. I left Otto and Missy out to play, my teenager was home with them. Well, my 6 yr. old brought a bunch of friends home while it was away and one of the kids found Missy and put her in the cage with Mac, Mishia, Wacky, and Shieka. When I got home, I didn't go looking for them, thinking they were sleeping in a favorite place. About 8:00 that night I went looking for Missy and couldn't find her, we search outside (thinking the 6 yr. old had left the door open), under beds in drawers and in all the usual places and couldn't find her. I was in tears! At 8:30 husband heard screams coming from Mac and Mishia cage, and found Mac beating the snot out of poor lil Missy. I came running and he put her limp lil body in my arms, she wouldn't even hold her head up, and she just laid on my chest for the longest time as I stroked her soft fur, rain kisses all over her and whispered in her lil ear. She was terrified! 4 hours with them had devastated her! She slept with us that night and in the morning I put her in her cage with Otto, so she could feel love from Otto. Well, on Saturday I let her and Otto out of their cage and Missy flopped out and was dragging her hind legs behind her to get to the treat bowl. I rushed her to her vet and did x-rays thinking she might have been hurt. X-rays were clear, no damage from her ordeal. We couldn't do a blood test then cuz I had been giving her ferretvite during the visit. So she put her on 1 ml prednisolone every 24 hours and wanted to keep her quiet for a couple of days. I took Otto out of their cage and put him in with Mittens, Trinity and Scooter Elliott. I took her out of her cage yesterday and her legs are a little better but not much, she still collapses after a few steps and wobbles when she walks. She is also quit eating. My vet thinks it may be an insulin tumor, but we can't know without the blood test. We think she might have been so terrorized by what happened, and needs plenty of attention from us and Otto. We have put Otto back in her cage and he curled right up to her. We are taking her to the vet today for the blood test. I just wanted to know if this has happened to anyone else and what did you do for your little fur-of-love? She has no other symptoms just back legs and not eating....... Thanks in advance Tracie and the lump-in-the-rug-gang Mittens, Trinity, Otto, Scooter Elliott, Missy, Mac, Mishia, Wacky, Shieka Up-date.......... Well, we just got back from the vet and its a spine injury! He said keep with the prednisolone, add pepto bismol ( shes having blackish poops) and duck soup. Marleen is coming over to help me with all this. ( force feeding duck soup is not easy!) I could just scream! I know the kid that put her in the wrong cage was trying to be helpful making sure Missy didn't go out the back door, but just look at all the pain we are now going through! I hope i don't have to ban the kids ( ages 6 to 11 ) from playing with the ferrets, they all love the little bundles of fur. What a lesson we are all learning! [Posted in FML issue 3334]