Was wondering if anyone has had this experience with their ferret. My Scooter has had a swollen foot for a couple months now. The vet thought it was a virus that would respond to Clavamox, but that wasn't it, and now she thinks it is possibly a cancer and has now put him on prednisone, and she wants to talk to me in 2 weeks and see Scootie in 4 weeks. She says there is a type of cancer that can respond to pred, and that is what she is hoping for. If not, then she said she'd have to amputate a toe to send it for testing, and he may have to lose the whole foot. It is his right front foot and I don't know how he'd do without it. His foot is very swollen, red, peeling toe pads, his nails have stopped growing on the worst 2 toes, his nails on all toes have turned yellowish-brown and are starting to get a bit deformed and they seem to be rough in texture. He has no ability to "grab" your finger or anything with the foot. When he steps on it on carpet, it seems to be fine, ! but on a hard surface, he steps down and his foot kind of slides out from under him a bit appearing to limp but he isn't limping. It does not seem to hurt him... possible dead nerves at this point, but his foot is still warm so it is getting circulation. Just wondering if anyone out there has had a similar problem and what the solution was or if it did in fact respond to pred?? Scootie is a bit over 5 so surgery is concerning for me as any surgery is risky for an older ferret, and I have already lost a ferret to exploratory surgery... it excelerated her passing, so the whole surgery thing makes me nervous. Plus, being his front foot, would he be able to pull himself around ok with only 1 front foot left?? Kelly White or..."very nervous ferret mom" [Posted in FML issue 4954]