Maggie, you may be interested to know that if you look on the web you will find that there have even been cases of reduced motility in people who regularly had huge amounts of fiber laxatives rather than any chemical ones causing a the effect. That was new to me so I learned something by seeking info, too, which often happens. (I wonder if ferrets who have been given a fiber like pumpkin puree to reduce diarrhea (since it can reduce either extreme) for long enough also have enough of an effect that motility is reduced when stopping the pumpkin?) Anyway, like I said, I only had time to lightly touch on the topic in searching and expect others to continue their own looking rather than taking my comments as anything that is at all complete, so I just gave leads to help people, including you, search on your own rather than argue, please. 'Nough said and thanks for seeing this time around what I was saying. Happy searching to you. 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 5625]