There is no shame and no blame in being human and fallible. Everyone is. When a misunderstanding of a clearly written post occurs then something happened in the reading by definition. Can't have such things said to have been missed and yet have the same poster later say that there was no mechanism through which they were missed. No one is perfect, no one can be perfect and no one is expected to be perfect. That simply would not be fair or logical to anyone. Being seen as having the same range of fallibility types as everyone else has never been an insult for anyone. Please, don't take such easy offence at something which would not get anyone else's hackles up. There is no shame in simply being as human as all of the rest of us. No one here is perfect and no one here is expected by the rest to be perfect; that is part of communal acceptance. It's a GOOD, healthy, and tolerant thing to not be expected to be perfect and to in turn not expect anyone else or oneself to have to be. That acceptance is easier, happier, more logical, and more socially the norm than the upset (accusations or defensiveness) which can arise when impossible standards can't be met for no other reason than that they are impossible. This is a good community with realistic standards and acceptance of each other as simply human. ---- Learned a bit more in a just our article on acrylamide. Quite fascinating. Keep an eye on http://www.sciserv.org for when it appears on the site. For humans it may not pose the risk that it does for other species; that is an aspect which is under current study to see if it does and to what degree if it does. (Which means that the advice at this point is to reduce -- they did not say "stop" in the article -- the amounts of junk foods cooked at high temps like fries and donuts.) Of course, ferrets are not descended from animals which have many tens of thousands of years of cooked food in their pasts so they would not have the possible useful adaptations that had been honed during such a time, actually, they wouldn't have the long adaptations to some possibly nasty compounds that form in charred meats, either. Anyway, it's a fine article, and if you have ever wondered how the rodent studies for possible carcinogens are done and why many of them turn out to NOT apply to humans there is a clear explanation in there. I hope that even if they do find that humans aren't at major risk that there are studies to learn if these compounds are a problem for pet species so that any food manufacturing processes that might (note "might") need changing are altered. ---- Ferrets do very well with tail amputations and those form the usual approach for such growths: http://www.afip.org/ferrets/chordoma.html ---- >Yes mostly, thank you. That does lead to one other question, though. If >Lupron is controlling the symptoms, are those only the external symptoms >(such as fur loss and swollen vulva), or is it also controlling other >symptoms that may be happening internally (excluding the possibility of >slowing the tumor's growth)? For some nuggets of information we all just have to wait till careful research is complete. ---- For a few cents you can buy spring clips at a hardware store to stop this cage opening behavior. Been there... Tip, get it on film first. Wish that we had... [Posted in FML issue 3891]