There have been a lot of questions about loose stinky bowels in ferrets lately so I will put in my two cents worth. Sparky is 4. In May, he had his left adrenal removed. Everything seemed to be going well for him and he was recuperating nicely. On the other hand, Cocoa was dying of a tumor in his abdomen. Cocoa died July 2. Sparky slowed down on eating the end of July/ beginning of August. In August, he finally stopped eating all kibble except for some ferret treats with Lactobacillus in them. (Lactobacillus is the good stuff for your digestive tract found in yogurt.) He had very stinky diarrhea, brown with "birdseed" in it, and lost half of his body weight. Normal X-rays showed nothing. His intestinal tract was "a little ropey" according to the vet Medicating for PBD and then gastric ulcers and continuing on carafate for another month did not help. A friend gave me a "recipe" which I modified for Sparky. When I first started giving it to him, I mixed one Del Monte baby food jar of turkey or chicken with about 1/4 cup pedialyte, 1 heaping tsp. yogurt, a small amount of vegetable oil, a small amount of liquid Vitamin B, about 8 drops of ferrettone, about an inch of ferretvite, and a little heavy cream. He got this recipe 3 -4 times daily. To get him to eat it, I had to hold him and he would lick it off my finger After he got his body weight back up to where it should be, I stopped adding the pedialyte and cream. In November, the diarrhea finally went away and he started eating kibble again. I really think that for him, the yogurt was the key to his getting better because it adds good intestinal flora to help with digestion, and the diarrhea stopped and he started eating kibble again only after I doubled the amount of yogurt in the recipe. Originally I was only using one teaspoon of yogurt in his recipe. After a couple of months of trying to help him get better, I just felt that I had to change something. Since the diarrhea just wouldn't go away and he still wouldn't eat kibble, I started playing around with his "recipe" by adding and subtracting ingredients. I removed the yogurt and he almost stopped eating again, so I doubled the amount of yogurt in the recipe to two heaping teaspoons. It was a couple of weeks after I upped him to two heaping teaspoons per batch of recipe that he got over the diarrhea and started eating kibble again. Now kibble is always in his cage, but once or twice a day, he also gets his recipe. I get the plain vanilla flavored yogurt that I mix in his recipe from a health food store so I know that it has lots of good Lactobacillus in it. God bless and give each one of you guidance in finding your solutions to your ferret's problems. Nancy [Posted in FML 5504]