Thank you to the people who responded so warmly and supportively. Danee and Linda, I followed your links over to the ADV forums and appreciate the emotional support. I actually already knew quite a bit about ADV before this happened, but *living* with it is a whole 'nother story. Danee, your post was so well written and sensitive. I have saved it and will refer to it when the time comes to "clean up" after the ferrets have gone...hopefully that won't be for many, many years. The ferrets now are symptom-free. As it says in Leese's Story on the ferretadv.com website, "he doesn't know he's sick." They don't know they're sick, and I'm not going to be the one to tell them. But when the time comes, I will know not to battle the illness, and just to have my poor ferrets put down. We struggled for 2 1/2 weeks, trying everything to keep the one who died alive...she went through so much suffering that was needless. If I had it to do over again I wouldn't have put her through that. But when the vet said that the test result *could* be a "false positive," I clung to that hope. The tests I did were Avecon QuickCheck tests, I used saliva. I know there's a margin of error, but since I did it on all three of them, I'm going to assume I couldn't have gotten THREE false positives. Had the result been negative, then I was planning to take them to the vet for a blood test to be sent to United for analysis. <sigh> but now that won't be necessary. Laura, I want to send a special thank you for the link to buy parvocide. I read about it in Danee's post and was just thinking "now where in the heck am I going to get that?" when your post answered my question. I bought it, and yes I'll be careful using it, although my first thought is to drench myself and everything in the house (including the ferrets) in it in hopes that it will kill all the ADV in our house and in the ferrets and we can just get over this. I know, that won't work, but it's my fantasy. I will be sure to take it with me when I go to the vet. I have to call the photographer and the local ferret shelter (who had ferrets at the local PetSmart this past Sunday when I was there having my ferrets pictures taken). If I could do it over, I obviously wouldn't have gone, but I really, truly believed that they didn't have it. Since I've never been to a ferret show and none of my friends have ferrets, I truly believed that my ferrets couldn't possibly have caught it. I didn't take my ferrets into the little room where the shelter ferrets were, but I had gone in there myself earlier in the day. Plus, I let my ferrets walk all over the store on their leashes. I would give anything to rewind back to Sunday and undo the terrible damage I may have done. St. Louis people: the PetSmart I'm talking about is the Brentwood PetSmart, across from Target. Depressed Mom [Posted in FML issue 4491]