Hi all I have not poseted in a long time but I wanted to pipe up. My ferret Elvis has a dribble problem (Men! They always miss the toilet). Originally, we thought it was because he had adrenal disease, we had his left adrenal removed about a year ago. While the problem did get temporarily better, it never fully went away. Because he is always wet down there bacteria wicks into his urethra and bladder so he keeps getting urinary tract infections. Most recently, it is e-coli (amazing since both my husband and I are vegetarian, and Elvis never goes outside). Right now we have him on 1.0 2x daily Batryl (sp?) to treat the infection not the dribbling. It appears that the adrenal tumor damaged his prostate and caused this constant drip. He has inslanoma as well so we have him on pred 0.2 2xdaily and diazoxide .7 2x daily for that. The vet says that she gives incontinent dogs phenylpropanolamine (ppa) to strengthen the muscles around the urinary tract. The dose for a small dog is 5.0 10.00 ml 2x a day. This drug has been recalled in humans because it can cause strokes and other bad things (it is related to Phen-phen). Do any of you know anything about this drug, or do any of you know how to teach a ferret kegel exercises J. This poor guy is on 3 drugs now (granted the batryl is temporary) I hate to put him on more. And my other ferrets are turning yellow because they sleep with him. Any advice would be great. On another note I see on the internet that Diazoxide is super expensive. Do you guys have this problem too. I get it from a local pharmacy for about $50.00 a month not cheep but not the outrageous prices I see on the internet. If anyone wants the information on this pharmacy, let me know. I asked last time I went in and the owner said he will UPS shipments out to people, and you get to pick the flavor!! (I always pick banana so I don t know the other choices). Now this is a TINY pharmacy so I don t want to overwhelm them with ferret owners. Now to address Kristen and Tiana s questions from yesterday. 2 of my ferrets have had adrenal surgeries. Kristen, see above about Elvis. My ferrets are always running into corners to pee changing their mind and running to another corner. Have your vet show you how to palpate the bladder it is simple and you can tell right away if it is full or not. If he were my ferret I don t know that I would have an ultrasound, in my experience your vet will just tell you yup the adrenal is big you should probably have a surgery which you already know. I would just put my money into the surgery in the first place. Elvis exhibited no other signs of an adrenal tumor other than the urination; perhaps if I had had the surgery earlier he would not be drippy boy today. I don t know, what I do know is that once he started to drip the damage was done. Tiana my little girl Sasha had 2 adrenal surgeries, we put off the second because it was going to be a r side vena cava ligation which is a VERY risky surgery. Finally I realized that I could not put it off any longer (her vulva was the size of a pencil eraser poor girl). I paid about $800.00 for the surgery and it went wonderfully. Her vulva is now normal sized. (The worst thing that happened in this whole ordeal is that I took my 8 year old niece to the vet with me, when we were leaving she asks me auntie Kirstin, whats a vulva? Um er ahem.) I would not trust this surgery to anyone but a ferret expert, my vet has done thousands of adrenal surgerys, but still she said there was a fair chance (30% +) that my ferret would die on the table. Emagine the size of a ferrets vena cava, they have to cut it in half take the tumor part off and sew it back together, it is a wonder any survive at all. All I can say is my thoughts are with you. Any help with the dribble would be appreciated. Thank you all, Kirstin in Portland And her kids, Elvis, Sasha, Max, and Hazel. [Posted in FML issue 3833]