I have to write my letter to the USDA today to say that Steve and I support improved regulations for the ferret farms and those who sell ferrets wholesale, the distributors, and the transport they use. I'll send it in with a copy of the FML post so that they know what I mean. Everyone who has ever had a gripe about ferrets who died in airports, or arrived too young or ill at pet stores, or had prolapses in the petstores, or...: this is your chance to actually make a difference by letting the USDA know that team of vets is actually tackling an issue which is close to your heart. If you have a story to go with it then let them know, because I think that way too many of us HAVE seen kits too young to eat hard food, kits who were too small to compete for food, kits who had shavings or bedding stuck to painful prolapses and whose thinness was obvious once they were picked up, kits who left their moms too early to be socialized properly, and more. YOUR LETTERS sent now to those people HAVE POWER if we can enough of them arriving there! (If you missed the posts about this send a mail to [log in to unmask] with the message SEND FERRET 4456 to get Friday's FML. or go to http://www.smartgroups.com/message/readmessage.cfm? gid=1423922&messageid=8307&startid=8311 ----- Lisette, too many OTCs have ingredients that can cause liver damage or death, so avoid them. With an allergy certainly plain(no other meds added) juvenile Benedryl elixir will help, and there are other things vets have mentioned, but things like acetominaphen (which I am sure I spelled wrong off the cuff) kill ferrets. A look through the archives (FML and FHL) will help. BTW, anyone who needs to find the archive addies fast can find them in the crit. ref.s at http://www.ferretcongress.org Protracted, unusual, or strong coughing is a sign which calls for a rapid vet appointment and usually also for a chest x-ray. [Posted in FML issue 4457]