Everyone please keep my Bandit in your thoughts and prayers, he had both left and right adrenal surgery and spleen removed with in a matter of 4 wks apart, 1adrenal/spleen & right back in 4 weeks later, for the other adrenal, the bad one this time, so it has only been debulked, and my vet is not all that knowledgable with ferrets, but, she is learning. Bandit just isn't bouncing back, and he is failing, slowly. This is just breaking my heart, because Bandit if the very first ferret i have ever in my life time held, he was thrust into my arms, when we stopped @ the petshop, that day just to browse, and noticed 3 cute baby ferrets in the BIG FISH TANK. The mgr plucked Bandit out and thrust him into my arms, and then grabbed another for Dan to hold. That was maybe 4years ago, he was just a BABY then :-( ....now he looks like an old worn out man :-(....I know he doesn't feel good, he tells me with his eyes :-( ...i will not subject him to anymore surgeries, it would kill him. Instead, i stand helplessly watching him slowly fade out of life, and, just don't know what to do anymore, all the food i feed him, is just not sticking to him, he has gotten a Lupron injection, and going to get the pedia pred, but ...he is getting weaker everyday :-( ...my bubby boy, is such a trooper. To see him progress from such a full of life, young ferret, to this in such a few short years/months, as he just got sick this spring, is just upsetting!!! I blame the darned ferret MILLS! ! I have dealt with enough death and dying this year, and now i am about to lose one of the original 3...the ferret pioneers in the Christen household. Please, if anything, pray that he doesn't suffer, i am off all day tomorrow, and am going to just surface clean the house and sit with my boy in my arms for the day, and tell him just how much i love him, and try not to make him feel bad by bawling my eyes out. Just too much. . .sometimes donna [Posted in FML issue 3837]