Dear Ferret Folks- Despite my assertion yesterday that "Lily was intravenously dehydrated at the vets", I must hasten to assure you that she was NOT in fact, sucked dry at great expense, and reduced to several ounces of fine gray powder. She was intravenously HYDRATED. It was my wallet that was sucked dry there. Yes, it appears to have been freeze dried, rather like those tasty meals served to astronauts, or perhaps Walt Disney. Alexandra in MA [Posted in FML issue 4824]