[Sent yesterday, never received, resent today. BIG] Fritter: I don't know if they still are made, but some non- alcoholic wines used to have fluted plastic caps that slid over the screw on bottle caps. These were then covered with foil to look like a cork was there. The ferrets LOVED those for ferret-hockey, but Fritter found a new use. She would turn them open side up and turd in them -- yes, her own little toilet. Cleaning up after Fritter meant three things: 1. Drinking a lot of non-alcoholic wine to have more of the caps. 2. Picking up the very neatly filled caps and tossing. 3. Cleaning up the one little dot where she would blot her bum afterwards. Before treating for the bedbugs I think that you should contact one of the poison control centers to learn how to do it safely: ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center's emergency hotline at (888) 426-4435 Angell Memorial Animal Medical Center Pet Poison Hotline 1-877-2ANGELL (1-877-226-4355) The charge is per case at each so keep the case identification if more things have to be done to get rid of the bedbugs. Diazoxide dosing from _Essentials of Ferrets, a Guide for Practioners_: 5-30 mg/kg q 12h PO Prednisolone: 0.10-2.5 mg/kg q 12-24h PO From the second edition of _Ferrets, Rabbits and Rodents, Clinical Medicine and Surgery_: Diazoxide: 10-20 mg/kg PO q 12h Prednisolone: 0.5-2.0 mg/kg PO q 12 We prefer the first resource usually for meds. BTW, Prednisolone is usually these days treated as a "what the individual will tolerate" med. BTW, always give it with food. Some vets split it up into dosing three times a day instead of two. -- Sukie (not a vet) Ferret Health List co-moderator http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/ferrethealth FHL Archives fan http://ferrethealth.org/archive/ replacing http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org International Ferret Congress advisor http://www.ferretcongress.org [Posted in FML issue 5194]