When an adrenal is inoperable: Joanne, please, consider Lupron Depot as well as Melatonin. One of my hopes for all of the U.S. shelters out there is that the approval for Suprelorin, which has been used and tested elsewhere, get pretty rapid approval here because it is very affordable, though to be honest with you if your vet has enough ferret patients to process his own Lupron from a large purchase then the cost winds up being very affordable for most. This write-up will interest you: http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/adrenal.htm and will Mike Janke's melatonin article there and I suggest looking up melatonin posts and Lupron Posts from AFERRETVET in the FHL Archives (addy below my name) Fleas: for those asking about fleas here is a vet write up that is a few years old but may be useful. I don't have time to read it now, but things from Susan Brown tend to be good to read: http://www.veterinarypartner.com/Content.plx?P=A&A=492&S=1&SourceID=43 Here is an interesting paper from Veterinary Toxicology: http://www.ivis.org/advances/Beasley/Cpt6b/ivis.pdf The Tick (the one with human actors instead of the cartoon: They are commercially available in a 2 DVD set from Sony which covers all episodes. Look for a case which is in the same blue as the Tick's costume. The title is "The Tick, the Entire Series". Great for a lot of laughs and for noticing how much like a ferret the Tick himself can be. (Ferrets would LOVE to have his expressive antennae. ;-) ) It works great on my Mac, so if you can play DVDs on your computer you are set while you don't have a TV. Just for laughs I even checked, and yes, they do even have it at Netflix. -- Sukie (not a vet) Ferret Health List http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/ferrethealth FHL Archives http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org International Ferret Congress http://www.ferretcongress.org [Posted in FML issue 4925]