I am exceptionally busy right now, but many answers (including from experts) for health questions appearing in the Tuesday FML can be found in the posts, files, bookmarks and archives of the Ferret Health List: http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/ferrethealth http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org/ Next new feature to arrive will likely be a list of compounding pharmacists, and there is an on-going project putting together compilations of past posts for the files section on medical problems which are commonly asked about or which are critical time-wise but hard to find info on. So far the list includes: cardiomyopathy, common parasites, prostate and bladder blockage, and A/V Heart Node Block (rare but finding info and consultants who are familiar with it in ferrets very quickly makes the difference between life or death if it is a level 2 or 3). Diabetes is hard to find info on and is time critical, but there is a LOT in the FHL Archives on this topic so maybe that will be the next health-related compilation after Pam and I each finish our parts of the compounding pharmacy project. These compilations may also be used to provide raw information (but may not be copied) for other's articles on the topics so that as many ferrets as possible may be helped. The posts used in the compilations are from the FHL Archives. With a year and a half of input from a number of ferret specialist vets, geneticists, etc. the FHL Archives is a treasure trove of useful information, and Pam and Eric Sessoms designed it to be incredibly easy to search, with instructions right there next to the boxes one fills in to make it even easier to search and to narrow a search. Someone who has never searched before will find it easy to do. The FML Archives is also a wonderful and too often under-utilized resource, not only for health questions but for all sorts of things: integration of ferrets, litter training, etc. so I hope that it exists just about forever... Go to: http://listserv.cuny.edu/archives/ferret-search.html Here are a few other places to begin if common problems like insulinoma or adrenal growths are being discussed: http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html http://home.att.net/~hhoefer/ http://www.lbah.com/Ferrets/ferret_diseases.htm http://www.napcc.aspca.org/ http://www.aspca.org/site/PageServer?pagename=apcc http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc http://www.ferrethealth.info http://www.ferret.org/index.htm http://www.ferretnews.org/clinic.html http://www.ferretsanonymous.com/medical.html http://homepage.ntlworld.com/ferreter http://www.ferretcentral.org [Posted in FML issue 3916]