When dealing with ferrets who are returnees: Remember to use health cautions as if these were unknowns. For example, they should not only be re-tested for parasites and ADV, but take the right cautions that are used when there could be a possible CDV exposure from the environs, for example, w your cleaning before interacting w other animals and making sure all of your animals have their vaccines on board, etc. Appropriate lengths of quarantine should be used and so on. Some diseases, like Aleutian Disease and Canine Distemper can stay for extended periods in the environs, for example, on cages. Some parasites also can have eggs in environs that can result in later infestations. So, when animals wind up in a place with questionable conditions it always needs to be considered that such exposures could have happened, whether new or returnees, and just take the same precautions to prevent any possible spread if there was exposure and infection, and do the same testing and treatments as was done before. Just a reminder that even if individuals were known before, the environs weren't, so use the same behavior as for new arrivals rather than modifying it to a less cautious state based on what they were like before any possible exposures at the last location. 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 5809]