I know its been a while, but things are really busy at Ferret Haven "By-the-Sea". We are fuzzy with ferrets! Timon, our unusual case of adrenals (you may remember he was mounting his cagemate, another neutered male) had his surgery - it was a malignant left adrenal. Its been over 6 weeks and while his behavior has calmed down a bit, he still bites and mounts - poor long-suffering Pumba. Separating the boys makes both unhappy, so we just apply bitter apple to the back of Pumba's neck - Timon doesn't like the taste. Tigger recovered successfully from his adrenal surgery - he's a 7 year old male - and he was lucky, too - left side! His energy level after surgery is wonderful to see. Kaya was our latest in for surgery for adrenals - she was a very difficult right side adrenal. She is going on 6 years old and our 'monkey girl'. Bounced back from surgery as if she had been out for a walk in the park. PeeDee ended up having exploratory surgery the same day that Kaya had her adrenalectomy when a routine exam found a hard mass in his abdomen. PeeDee is our successful prepucial adenocarcinoma ferret - he had three previous surgeries to remove this aggressive, malignant cancer. We feared that we had not beaten the cancer after all. His surgery showed no signs of recurrance - it was fat - a nodular mass but no cancer. He is taking a bit longer to bounce from surgery (he lost his cagemate Snowball three days prior to the surgery) but is slowly and surely recovering. Silk had a bad spell about a week ago - her seizures began again and we wonder if something in her environment might be triggering them. We don't want to increase her dosage of phenobarbital unless we have to. Changing her cage location stopped the seizures....coincidence? We have no idea. Her leukemia continues to stay in remission. Our next in line for surgery are Rascis and Dusty - both ferrets are blind and have insulinoma and adrenals. Rascis seems to be a bit stronger than Dusty and will most likely be first. Both are getting monthly lupron shots to help control the adrenals. Boy you can tell its summer - the half grown babies(4 to 6 months old) are pouring in, and the surgeries just keep lining up. My personal kids are doing just great - Sweet Lily has never gotten larger than a 10 week old kit - everyone that sees her thinks she is a baby! Kavik, her brother, is more than twice her size but very, very dumb. Both just passed their 1st birthday...Jagerine (Diana) continues to rule the cage and Buster her brother is just hoping for a bit more room in the hammock.They are turning 4 in September - I can't believe I've had these two for that long - time flies! Dijon, my oldest ferret is turning 8 in October. Other than failing eyesight and a little slowing down, she is doing just fine. She used to be a silver mitt and has roaned into a DEW with a black nose! Thankfully all are healthy in my crew. The rest of the ferrets here - Blossom, Leah, Little Foot, Petry, DB, Angie, Casey, Bandit, Chief, Bear, Pogo, Dulce, Patty, Rosie and Basil are also looking for new homes - we have every color of the rainbow from Albino/DEW to black sable...some of the kids here do have special wants and needs (we have quite a few bonded pairs for instance), so please take the time to see if you have room for 'just one more'. We are located in Southeastern Virginia and don't ship our ferrets. Thanks from everyone here! Lisa Leidig, Head Ferret The Ferret Haven "By-the-Sea" www.ferrethaven.org [Posted in FML issue 3483]