I am sorry that Oprah passed away. The decision for surgery or not aside, a good point for other owners who have never (thankfully) come across squeaking or tooth grinding is that if your fuzzy is grinding it's teeth, you can manage their pain with medication. Buprinex can help this and let your ferret have some good sleep relatively pain free. If there is squeaking, an emergency vet trip is in order. At that point you may have to put the ferret to sleep to ease it's pain if it is that extreme. The vet would be able to help you decide with x-rays, etc. to see if it's really necessary or not. Sometimes cases are not cut and dry. Pain could be from anything - a tumor, a blockage, something easily fixed, or not at all. Laryssa [Posted in FML 5995]