Hello everyone . . . . Jennifer again with a DIFFERENT question about my Sasha and Snowy. In addition to Snowy's hosiery fettish (see previous post in this list), I've noticed that both of my fuzzies have recently been going through some kind of intense scratching phase and I'm totally up in arms as to how to help them. I remember being told or reading that ferrets tend to naturally scratch at themselves as if they are scratching at fleas, moreso than other animals, so I'm ok with that and this has never really been a problem with my kiddos. But lately, they've been REALLY scratching at themselves to the point where they literally RUSH out of their beds in the middle of the night (making a very loud thump on the cage bottom as they fall, which wakes me up!) and sit outside their cage scratching away (thump, thump, thump) for about a minute or two. I mean these kiddos are scrambling to get room to scratch and I feel SO bad for them! THEN I've noticed they each have a few very small dried scabs on various parts of their bodies and I'm wondering if I have to actually take them to the doctor to get it checked out ??? Because I thought that they had been exposed to external parasites somewhere, I first washed all of their bedding, lightly sprayed it down with their regular ferret flea spray, and also sprayed the kiddos down after a good bath. This has always worked just fine in the past but it seems like now, none of this helps. I did this again just last weekend, to no avail again. I'm wondering "Are they allergic to something?" (I use the same laundry detergent as I always have and don't use fabric softener, as always) HELP! What's going on???? Is is the weather? Jen, Sasha and Snowy (itching for help!) :-) [Posted in FML issue 4399]