Hey there, Well I seem to have that problem everytime I have moved with my ferrets. I have also heard that Stridex pads and Selsun Blue work with blackheads. When I was at my vet who is awesome with ferrets I ended up getting this shampoo from her called oxydex. It worked so well. You don't put it all over them, just on the tail and let it sit for 5- 10 minutes. I know it is hard to keep a ferret still that long but ferretone usually does the trick! Then just rinse it off really well. I hope this helps a little bit. Oh and I used to think that ferrets didn't hack up their hairballs like cats well of course Bandit proved me wrong! For those of you that remember, Bandit is my 4 year old sable problem child. The first time my navy husband went away on cruise she cost me over $1000 in surgery to remove a 2 inch piece of plastic from her. The second time he went away we ended up in the Emergency vet on memorial day with her projectile vomiting. Stayed overnight there on fluids, the next night we stayed at the regular vet and got a Barium series. Barium went through all right but was getting just a tad snagged on something in her stomach, thought it was a floating hairball and was told to watch her and give her more frequent does of laxatone since she is the Groomer of the other five. Well the hubby left last monday and I thought we were free and clear of the vet. The last two times he was away we managed not to have to go to the vet, I thought the curse was broken. Well Thursday night while everyone was wrestling Bandit started hacking. I picked her up and sat in the bathroom. After hacking for a few seconds she threw up this HUGE, and I mean HUGE like 1.5 inch HAIRBALL!!! I was completely dumbfounded but so thankful since there was NO WAY she was going to be able to pass that through her system. She seemed a little out of it so I gave her some lite pear syrup from canned pears since I didn't have any pedialyte. She lapped that up then drank a huge bowlful of water and off to bed she went. The ER vet told me not to bring her in unless she started vomiting and/or had loose stools. Well here we are almost a week later and everything is A-OK. I followed up with her regular vet who told me that this very well may have been the hairball that was snagging the barium awhile back. Once again I am so thankful to the ferret angels that let her bring that yucky mass up!! Thank goodness! Oh did I mention we ended up at the vet with the dog who decided to swallow part of his bone whole....good grief!! I love animals LOL Happy and safe and happy halloween everyone! Dooks from Tracy & Matt the 6 florida fuzzies the spoiled cat and the dog that thinks he is a parrot! [Posted in FML issue 3951]