Google Alerts is bringing up a site called PetSkinDoctor so I decided to look it up. Dave and Joanna Long are not vets, nor are they MDs as far as I can find. They have an emu farm: Longview Farm. So, if you want Emu Oil (or maybe emu meat as well for all I know) that could be a source for you though there are plenty of alternative places to get it, but take the health care statements with a boulder of salt and use your ferret vet for the info and treatment guidance you need rather than people with insufficient information who happen to use "doctor" in a website name. (It was not an easy thing to track since they do not (so far?) have their backgrounds on the website, so I had to search for related articles and on their names which led to a series of articles with overlaps, finally getting to their emu farm info. I had to do it because some of the things I saw in news articles could have led some people to think this might be an option other than treatment for ferret adrenal disease, for diabetes in cats. It is NOT any of those things (though I suspect it may make the dry and thin skin some ferret get with adrenal disease feel better as can some other oils). Emu oil/ fat has its good points (including as a possible anti-inflammatory) just as certain other oils/fats do, but nothing is a cure-all and some of the things in the news articles I read sounded like "snake oil" (forgive the bad almost-pun). People who want to try emu oil can get products through pet stores and on-line ferret product stores (for example, the ferret product, Vivify), from health foods stores and some groceries or pharmacies, even from general mega-merchants like amazon.com.) Some far more accurate sources of info than the news articles I saw today trying to learn about that website (but accept them with their own limitations such as species used, study designs, comparative results to other approaches, etc.): http://www.springerlink.com/content/3830n157u2145526/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10622168 http://www.springerlink.com/content/x3347wn276641714/ and you can find others by using PubMed and Google Scholar. Notice that you will want to be comfortable with your source since comparative studies have found emu oils to vary considerably. 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 6242]