After doing a lot of obsessive reading about prednisone, I'm a little concerned about a few issues. First, I don't completely trust the prescribing vet's competence. When I asked him about the concentration of the liquid (it's actually prednisolone), he stuttered a bit and then finally told me that we're giving 2mg/kg/day. Okay, that makes sense--we give 1mL in the morning and 1mL in the evening. But then I read a lot about how ferrets don't usually like (though they tolerate it) the liquid prednisolone and vets often use linatone or something tasty to improve the taste of the med. That's scary for two reasons: 1) linatone should only be given as a treat, not in significant amounts, twice a day every day for the remainder of the ferret's life, right?, and 2) if they didn't use linatone, but instead used "something tasty," that probably means sugar, which would be BAD news for a ferret with insulinoma. Now, the reasons that I'm so concerned about this are 1) Loki absolutely LOVES the pred. When I give it to him, he licks it from the syringe so voraciously that I think he might just eat the whole syringe in one bite. Wouldn't this indicate that there is either linatone or "something tasty" mixed in? 2) If linatone is mixed in, and I'm giving a total of 2mL/day, then that wouldn't actually be 2mg/kg/day because the linatone dilutes the pred, right? Maybe I'm just confused about this whole mg/kg and mL thing, but... It is important for me to know exactly what does he is on because we are moving soon. If I go to the new vet and tell him/her that Loki is on 2mg/kg/day but he is really on something much lower, this would be bad. Does anyone know the rules on what, if anything, is generally used to make prednisolone taste better? Is it likely that I'm giving Loki something that is bad for him? And can someone explain the mg/kg and mL situation to me? I understand that mg measure solids and mL measure liquids--just need to understand this dosage in terms of liquid prednisolone. Thanks... and sorry for the long note! If I receive a whole lot of responses, I might not be able to reply to them all. I'm still trying to reply to all of the responses to my other two posts! If don't write back, please know that I'm still grateful for your help!! :) Ashley [Posted in FML issue 4892]