Hey everyone, I`m new to posting to the FML, but I`ve been a long time reader, and I was hoping someone could help me with my ferret, Snowbell. I`ve had her since Jan 2001, and I guess about August she started showing some problems. It started with her getting really tired, not wanting to really play at all, wouldn`t even go into her sleeping bed. She had stopped eating and pooping. That week I found that she had eaten something of a hairball (for lack of a better term, something that just got stuck), so I fed her a little mushed strawberry and some ferret treats meant to get rid of hairballs. After a week, she was all better, and began resuming her normal activities. But then I guess 2 weeks ago, when I was over at friend`s house, my mom had found her shaking and really in a funk. She just looked really sick and was really limp. They had held her and fed her a little of the strawberry mush, and after an hour or so, she had looked really better and active. When I got home, she looked normal as ever, but I noticed that when I let her out, she`s really active and playful but after maybe 5-10 minutes she gets extremely tired, which has never been the case before. Today, it happened again, so I held her for about 45 minutes then put her back in her bed. She`s only 3 years old (I`m not sure, the ppl who gave me the ferret are really screwed up ppl, and I have been told that she was 1-6 years old sometime or other. That is why I got her, because it was terrible how she was treated, her cage was covered in her stool and was w/o food or water. it went that way with her for poss. weeks at a time there. So I took her from them.), and I haven`t been able to take her to the vet. I know she must be sick, but I`m not sure with what. I was hoping that someone might be able to help me what I could do for her to make her feel better. I was also wondering if someone could tell me some ferret-knowledgable vets in my Area, I live in Virginia, in the fredericksburg-spotsylvania area. Thanx ALOT - Bob and Snowbell [Posted in FML issue 3599]