This is the first time I have ever posted but had a story about why the word Melatonin makes me feel dizzy and light-headed. My ferret Peanut aka Pikachu, who has had his adventures posted before here as he is master escape artist and expert climber who thinks he can fly. Anyway, I digress. My mom flew out to the east coast from California to visit me and go with me to the furballs first show. She was having trouble sleeping so I put some Melatonin on my shelf by my bed and she said she would take it if she needed it. During the night P. made his usual racket so I let him out to run around and fall asleep under my bed with all his toys( and mine as well!) He woke me up in the morning by falling asleep on my head. We all got up an hour later and mom and I played with P. and went to get some last minute supplies and dinner. We came back and Peanut was sleeping so we did not bother him. We watched tv and about 3 hours later I had an overwhelming feelin of dread. I ran to the cage and grabbed the fuzzy butt out of his hammy. He was limp and cool ( cool because he was next to the AC vent on the floor) No matter what I did, no response. I almost shoved the hairball goo up his nose as I was shaking and crying so bad. I could not figure out what had happened. I looked on the shelf and asked mom how many Melatonin she took as there was one left and I had left three out for her. She said she woke up in the middle of the night and took one. She thought one had fallen on the floor but thought nothing of it. She had only just met him and only saw my other feret once and knew nothing about their behavior. She fely very badly. She grabbed Peanut as I looked for the shoes that were right in front of me. She got the boy to wake up and we looked for the Melatonin. It was nowhere to be found. They were a rather high dose as well. We kept him awake as much as we could until he cried begging us to leave him alone. He crawled into my closet to hide from us and went to sleep. We went to the ferret show and found our friend Denise, who loves the little vegatable stealing monster, and told her what happened, she took Peanut, scolded him for eating that wasn't nailed down and whisked him away to our favorite ferret vet who looked and was trying to hold back her laughter seeing how concerned I was. She said he was fine, just a little dopey. By the time we got back to our table, people were stopping by to see The Melatonin Boy. Those who knew him gave him hugs and kisses and said how it wasn't nice to make mom cry, but he could probably get that new fleecy hammy and some toys out of it. I tried to keep him awake for his class which was delayed for 4 hours! We finally made it up to the judge and Peanut cried while he was being examined then bit the judge. He never bit anyone in his life up until then. There were 15 other ferrets in his class and the first 5 were deeply disappointed. When he announced number ten was Peanut, the Melatonin Boy, everyone cheered. Peanut missed his moment of glory as he was fast asleep in the hood of my sweatshirt. I was not afraid now as he was doing his limp spaghetti thing again. I was so proud of him for doing so well. ( We had on last check by a vet before we went home and all had VERY long naps! Not to worry, between me and his Mommy 2, I am sure there will be more stories to tell for your amusement as Peanut, now Pikachu, has very happy feet and big tummy. Fuzzy love to all! Jules [Posted in FML issue 3740]