Hi everyone, My best friend has a fert problem. This is how she describes it: "very sweet, active, playful, normally napping, eating, pp'ing and pooping 7yr old MF male fuzz butt has small amount of hair loss on tummy, mostly to right side of midline tummy...all of a sudden I can see his nipples and feel his skin. The tummy is also tight, like he's flexing, I can feel the abdomen wall very distinctly from the little bit of chub under his skin. When I try to moosh and feel around on his tummy, I don't feel any distinctive mass, just the tightness of the abdominal wall. Just wondering if anyone has any ideas or if you know of any correlation of some process with this hair loss/tummy tightness...also having a blood panel on the 24th, what should they be looking for? Is that soon enough (today is the 19th). PLS TELL ME EVERYTING YOU KNOW I am freaking out!! Thanks, very sincerely, Yoda's spastic mom." I hope someone/anyone out there has some advice to help her. You can email me direct to which I will forward the email or you can post to the FML. Thanks! Your fellow ferret furling, Tanya Max, Raider, Peanut, Goose, Unagi, Pikachu, and for Snickers who continues to make a place for us all at the bridge. [Posted in FML issue 3546]