Just thought I'd mention...I was reading a magazine the other day (in the checkout line -- probably "US", but I don't remember), had profiles of the recent crop of too-cool-for-words Gap models. One of the little ones, a 1 1/2 year old girl, she lives in the midwest somewhere along with her favorite play pals...2 ferrets. Oh, and Linus' distaste of diazoxide is not exactly the end of the world. I had just gotten so used to giving him his meds, and he would lick them right up, yum yum! So with the diazoxide I have to get ahold of him, pull him out of his sleepy sack actually, I feel bad when he's sleeping (though he does that lots nowadays), and most of the time I can hold him and give him the med. When he's up and around though and I have to pick him up he has more energy and so will resist. But, giving him ferretone beforehand has the same effect as giving him the yummy meds first. He pretty much eats anything after a ferretone experience. Does anyone have an incontinent ferret? How old is the ferret? Could you see it coming (could you see the ferret becoming incontinent)? Before Linus' recent health setback, he was really good about going into the kitchen or the bathroom to "powder his nose". But nowadays, he just pretty much goes, wherever he is. He hasn't soiled himself while sleeping yet, though I have found some poop and a couple drops of urine uncomfortably close to his sleepy sack. It's hard to tell how that happened. Some was actually on top, and I am wondering if he woke up from a nap in a hammock, had to go, started down the stairs in the cage, and didn't make it. Anyway, he'll be 8 in April. Thanks, Minta & Linus [Posted in FML issue 4092]