At 3:28 AM -0400 9/28/01, Automatic digest processor wrote: >If a ferrets scent glands do fill and become uncomfortable for the >ferret do you....(1) ignore it? (2) surgically remove the anal glands? >(3) express them or (4) ???????? In 19 years we have had only one with infected glands. Sometimes warm soaks (with or without antibiotic runs) work; when not, then removal is the way to go. Expressing regularly from such tender tissue as ferrets have can cause a problem to continue, according to the vet who removed them from the one who had an impacted one. I.E.: instead of a cure regular expression MIGHT be a cause of problems. [Posted in FML issue 3555]