So recently poor little Pan ferret had a very bad reaction to his distemper vaccination (Merial Purevax, too--I guess he didn't hear about the lower reaction rates), and in the aftermath wound up with a stress ulcer. He's taking the usual bunch of medications including metronidazole (Flagyl), and while he is pretty willing to take all the others, he really hates the metronidazole, as I _would_ have said all ferrets do. So Seti hovers around while Pan is getting his medicines, because somebody is getting a treat and he isn't and he feels left out. Last night while I was giving Pan his amoxycillan, I put the syrnge of metronidazole on the nightstand next to us. Seti hopped up on the nightstand to see what it was. I thoroughly expected him to take one sniff or perhaps a little lick and recoil in horror. Quite the contrary! He licked the end of the syrnge two or three times and then started chewing on the end of it! Crazy, crazy ferret who likes metronidazole!! So I've concluded that the way to get a ferret to like metronidazole is to pretend that you are giving it to another ferret as a treat and make the ferret who needs it jealous. It's the only explanation I can think of! (in a presumably unrelated event also last night, Seti very charmingly scratched at the inside of his tunnel in perfect synch with Panjabi MC's Beware of the Boys. MC Seti in the house! Wiki wiki scratch!) Regina Regina Harrison [log in to unmask] everything moved: http://users.rcn.com/badriya/ blog: http://users.rcn.com/badriya/zblog.html "Is that my business? Well, what is my business? Do I know? Did I ever know? Let's not go into that. You're not human tonight, Marlowe. Maybe I never was or ever will be... Maybe we all get like this in the cold half-lit world where always the wrong thing happens and never the right." --Raymond Chandler, The Little Sister [Posted in FML issue 4198]