Hello everyone. I'm posting this in behalf of someone who doesn't have access to the FML. I really appreciate your help and prompt response. - Joe "I have an adult male ferret (exact age and medical history are not known, we believe he is around 5 years old) . 2 days ago he started getting lethargic. He spends most of the day just laying around and he gets up just to go to the bathroom. He doesn't want to eat/drink anything. We've been feeding him pureed chicken and some pedialyte. He's lost a lot of weight. Every time we give him water (or any other fluid) his heart rate increases and he seems to get stressed. His respiration seems laborious (his belly moves a lot when he is breathing). We've taken him to several vets, but the problem is that there are no ferret-knowledgeable ferrets where I live and this happened during the weekend. He will have an X-ray and blood drawn later today by another vet who supposedly knows a little more about ferrets (I went from vet to vet because every vet recommended me someone different and then that person would recommend somebody else and so on and so forth). One of the vets who saw him said that it could be a gastric infection because his intestines seemed distended. He is currently on antibiotic but it doesn't seem to help. I don't think this is really the problem. His stools are normal (they are smaller and dryer because he is eating/drinking less) but the color and consistency are normal. Should I try giving him a laxative in the meantime?" "I'd appreciate any help you can give me. Could you reply to this email address (I don't use computers that much)?. Thank you. Sincerely, Patty" [Posted in FML issue 3810]