I want to tahnk everyone for emailing me information and their personal experiences with tumors on ferrets tails. A special thanks to Dodie who gave me a name of a vet in Plymouth Meeting. I took the Deaf One there on Wednesday and was not able to get an appointment with the Dr. Edling but her associate. She told me that I should get the tumor removed and that the surgery is mild. I scheduled the surgery for this upcoming Wednesday. I was told that I didn't need to fast her, which makes me happy since she is a little butterball and the thought of keeping her from food was a bit scary. The vet said that other than the tumor she was in good health which made me happy. The silly story about Alvin my albino ferret is, I was giving my ferrets baths Wednesday before taking the deaf one to the vet (don't want to take a stinky ferret to the doctors). My ferrets hate baths though. Well when I was bathing Alvin, I noticed that he this black thing stuck to the inside of his leg. I thought it looked like a piece of his poopie but when I tried to get it off while I was bathing him he started to nip and cry. Since he is probably 6 or 7 years old and I am in this nervous state over the deaf ones tumor I looked up some of the sites I was given and decided that it just might be a cancer or something so I drug him along with me to the vets. As it turned out the vet took out her shaver and shaved it right off it was a piece of poop he got stuck to him. And on top of that, while the vet was shaving him he ended up peeing all over her. I was so humiliated <smile>. Well I will let you know how the Deaf One pulls through her surgery on Wednesday and thanks again for all your help! Jen [Posted in FML issue 3823]