Dr. Brent Johnson - Northwest Animal Care Hospital in Everett. Just East of I-5 near the Everett Mall - http://www.nwanimalcare.com/ I'd met him at "Bark in the Park" last year at the Everett Aquasox - an annual event where you can bring your dog to the baseball game. They had several vets and pet food, toy manufacturers there and I had chatted with him a bit about ferrets. Totally forgot about him until the other day then did a search on him online and found he was very knowledgeable in adrenal surgeries and was recommended by a ferret shelter. That and SUPER close to me - like five miles! Went there today with Ringo for an ear infection and he's wonderful. We talked about just about all the ferret diseases and he's incredibly knowledgeable. Plus great bedside manner - something totally missing from our last vet. He was talking to Ringo and saying how cute he was and rewarded him with Ferretone after cleaning out his ears. And when he took a slide of the gunk in Ringo's ear the vet tech came and got me and brought me back into their lab area and he showed me on the computer monitor mites 6" high - GAH - that was pretty nasty! But very impressed that instead of just "he has mites" they showed me how nasty it was - full grown mites, juvenile mites, eggs. A freaking mite factory - GROSS!!!!! I was half fascinated half wanting to hurl LOL The whole staff there's super nice as well. When I first got there one of the techs came over while I was waiting and said "So tell me a bit about Ringo". At first I was wondering why she wanted to know so much about what he liked to do until a little bit later she handed me an adorable ID card for him! What they charged me for the office visit, a full exam, throroughly flushing his ears, doing a microscope slide of the ear gunk, meds for his ear infection, Revolution to kill the mites, a few more months worth of Revolution and taking blood and doing a full panel was WAY under what I would pay for the same at the last vet as well. Total bill was around $200. The other vet EASILY would have been $275 to $300. I'll definitely be using them from now on and have an appointment in two weeks to bring Ringo back for a recheck and to have Roxy and Johnny Rotten get a check up. Then I'll bring two more the next week and the last two the week after that since everyone's due for a checkup. Here's Ringo's ID card. The black bars are my address and phone number blacked out in my photo program. Just didn't want to put them on the web for obvious reasons. http://www.ferretocious.com/ringo/ringoID1.jpg http://www.ferretocious.com/ringo/ringoID2.jpg Oh and FYI - Ringo didn't even have the classic symptoms of mites - scratching at his ears, blackish flaky crud. But his ears were totally infested. I'm going to get all the fuzzies on Revolution to prevent this in the future. Kinda wish I'd held my cell phone up and filmed the skeevy mites for you all to see. But then again, not really sure you guys would want to see something so NASTY!!!! Laura [Posted in FML 6077]