Comment from Holly >She (the vet) did x-rays and couldn't feel a lump prior to her passing >the hairball. My Kobe became adrenal and insulinoma at the same time this past November. When the vet said lets do the surgery for these problems, little did either of us know that he had a hairball at least three inches long!!!! The vet was very shocked, she too had not felt any indications of a hairball and I had know idea either, as he was eating and pooping normal. She said it was probably due to the shedding he went through when everything hit him at once. It's just amazing, he's a fighter and is doing so well now! Wilson's Extreme Kobe the ferret, Buddy the lab mix (who thinks he's a fert), Nit and Wit the love birds and Beto and Bernice the terrapins [Posted in FML issue 4078]