I wonder what your friend is feeding her ferrets. I ask because I recently went to a new feed store looking for alternative ferret litter (wrong time of year for woodstove pellets) and the clerk there offered me a free opened bag bag of chinchilla food (basically rabbit food/alfalfa pellets). They said someone had brought it back to them because their ferret had just died. Can you guess why? That's what they were feeding their poor ferret. I almost cried on the spot when the clerk told me that. The people at the store of course set this person straight, that, hello!, ferrets are *carnivores* but it was too late for that poor little ferret. Sick and wrong. Some people may ignorantly be feeding their ferret inappropriate food, say, dog food, or a vegetarian diet. I recall reading of someone who rescued a ferret who was being fed nothing but fake 'krab' meat and lettuce. So along with wondering about some kind of gas/toxic/noxious fumes causing the deaths of the ferrets, I'd also be wondering about their diet. Just a thought. daoine o' *aka the ferret queen* Dweezil, Loki, and Razzle ~Sylvi~Rainbow Bridge~01/23/01~ [Posted in FML issue 3783]