Pam Sessoms found http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?cls=2&cat=1631&articleid=325 and Nelli in Hungary provided a wonderful photo: http://pets.ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/photos/browse/242e There are certainly adult skull photos in many places which can come in handy, as do the writings of Dr. Tailun He of Goteborg University in Sweden over the last 10 or so years whose many and excellent very comprehensive, very thoroughly researched journal publications on ferret dental eruption and formation, ferret dentition and assorted diets, ferret skull shapes and assorted diets, and other related aspects contain some gorgeous photographs, but apparently none that are really right for the education work on being able to actually see the changes in dentition during the ages of kithood. Certainly, also, other studies of interest can be found through the USDA Lists of Ferret Studies (very comprehensive): by topic category 2002-2006 http://nal.usda.gov/awic/pubs/Ferrets06/ferrets.htm#contents by topic category 1991-2002 http://www.nal.usda.gov/awic/pubs/ferrets/ferrets.htm by topic category before 1991 http://www.nal.usda.gov/awic/pubs/oldbib/ferretla.htm and other locations, but none of those have been just right for the education work, either, though we may have missed something. We are still seeking good photos of dental eruption in ferret kits from the ages of 7 to 12 weeks to put into the photo albums at the Ferret Health List, with the understanding that these photos will be used to teach pet store people and inspectors how to spot kits who are below the age of 8 weeks, which is currently illegal in some states and will hopefully be more widely illegal in the future for the simple reason that it is healthier for the kits themselves. BTW, when it comes to kit health and early removal from the mother, some also compelling data also exist in other developmental articles including in a journal article on immature kit intestinal villi -- another indicator that longer nursing than to 6 weeks is better, and also in a journal article on tracheal secretions indicating that kits younger than 8 weeks old are less able to deal with the challenges of respiratory disease so are best with with their moms rather than traveling and being handled by many people. (Yes, APHIS got copies of the abstracts of these studies back during the comment time on regulations so that they could pursue further.) Sukie (not a vet) Recommended ferret health links: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/ http://ferrethealth.org/archive/ http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/ http://www.ferretcongress.org/ http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html [Posted in FML 5606]