Poisoning info: If you don't bookmark it or lose your bookmarks always remember that you can find such important information by going multiple sites including The Ferret Health List, The International Ferret Congress, the Ferret Mailing List Archives, and Miamiferret. Here are poisoning info addies (since what is done varies depending on the item or the symptoms) and the addies for those places to help a person find further info: http://listserv.cuny.edu/archives/ferret-search.html http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/ferrethealth http://www.ferretcongress.org/ http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc --- Early spay: some vets say the spay surgery is actually easier done earlier, some worry that either early neutering -- or neutering at all -- may be a part of what plays into developing adrenal neoplasia (one of many hypotheses but it's not a stand-alone), there are the problems -- as you said -- with early deaths of females who have not been spayed and thus remain in heat long enough to develop fatal anemia, and with males who have not been altered and then stink being "released" to die horrible deaths. --- Dad got through an unavoidable large operation yesterday at age 88. He's not very cognizant today but it's too early for the physicians to know how much is due to the surgery or if he's maybe had another small stroke. Hoping for the former, obviously. Hope this post makes enough sense; I'm tired, nervous, and down with a bug. Heck, at least writing it is a good distraction! --- Nmes: what is her personality like so far? Steve is great at coming up with personality type names. Glueball clings while she kisses, Meltdown was incredibly active and melted hearts -- plus she like cheeseburgers when she could steal a taste and was born near Three mile Island, Warp was very fast and had a warped sense of humor, Fritter smelled like corn fritters when she slept and she did fritter around... I think that someone has a ferrets names list on a website somewhere. If you don't hear back with the URL try using a search engine like Google. [Posted in FML issue 3996]