If anyone wants to cast healing thoughts/advice this way, I'd appreciate it...I've got a sick weasel. Razzle, my boy who almost died in December from pyelonephritis has another UTI/bladder/kidney infection. Nowhere near as deathly ill as last time, but still sick. And he's such a smart boy! He let us know just like last time that he was ill...we'd go into the ferret room and he'd go right to the litter box and stand there and stare at us, as if to say, 'Hello? Look! I can't pee! Help me!' So off to the vet we went yesterday. $108 later, he's home and on antibiotics for the next week or so, along with lots of watery duck soup to keep him hydrated and flush his system out. We're going out of town toward the end of next week for 5 days, and I'm a little afraid, but the doc says he should be all but completely better by then, and my mate's singer's wife will be coming to check on the 2 boys here, and will keep Razzle at their house to give him his meds 2x day. They have ferrets, too, so I trust them completely! We have the same vet, and so he knows Razzle and the other 2 boys will be in good hands with her. But I'm still worried. He's older (about 7-1/2) and in not good health anyway (adrenal disease, and not a surgical candidate) so any good thoughts are much appreciated. Once he's over this my vet wants to start him on Lupron. I wish I'd gone ahead with that before now, but I really thought it was more expensive than he says it is, and not very effective, but he thinks it won't hurt at this point. Another reason I waited was I was also waiting to hear about the melatonin implants...as an FYI, he recently came back from a vet conference where that was one of the topics. Apparently it's not recommended. Pretty much all the stories and research he and the other vets heard and talked about were bad. One ferret it seems didn't wake up for 3 months after getting the implant...they had to have it hooked to an IV to keep it from starving to death until it 'came out of it'. Awful! So if anyone has any success stories with Lupron, I'd like to hear them. Thanks to everyone for your past and future support! :) ~Sherrie, aka daoine o', the ferret queen Razzle, Monty-boo and Sascha, all the boyz. Still missing Dweezil, my one small star, along with Sylvi, Loki, and Jezebel, my 4 girls over the Bridge. [Posted in FML issue 4941]