>The poops you mention with slime are usally ECE and almost all pet >store ferrets have ECE Just wanted to add my experience here. Snowball had dark green poops last year and I was totally freaked out because I thought ECE. ECE is not a term that should be used lightly (not saying that Kim was using the term lightly). When I took Snowball to the vet I asked him about ECE. We did a fecal test and some bloodwork. The test came back that the "happy" bacteria in Snow's digestive tract was just in complete overload. At the time, we were in the process of moving, had just adopted Snow and her sister Snickers the prior month, had also just lost our baby fert Maverick to an untimely death, and then ended up with 8 week old Dusty. It was just too much for her to handle. Ferrets can get stressed out and it definately effects their poop. Bandit, my oldest ferret, had to stay overnight at the Emergency vets this memorial day. She had nasty slimy green poop (and I do mean NASTY GREEN) the next day when I picked her up. We had to go to her regular vet for a check and I took the green poop along so they could do a fecal. It was the same situation as above. Her poor little system was just in overload with her being stressed and away from home...it was NOT ECE. If you see green poop and are concerned then take it and the fert to the vet for a fecal test. I do think it is completely FALSE for one to assume that almost all pet store ferrets have ECE. I have gotten 4 of my 6 ferrets from petstores and have never had one case of ECE. Let's not throw that term around because it gets alot of people in a unessecary uproar. Not trying to flame anyone since ECE is a very very serious condition but let not assume something so great. Hope everyone's fuzzies are doing good! Dooks, Tracy & the fuzzy 6 Bandit, Slick, Rusty, Snowball, Snickers, Dusty Marble the cat Matt the husband Missing....Frisbee and Maverick [Posted in FML issue 3800]