I learned an interesting thing to day from Dr. Matti Kiupel who is a ferret specialist pathologist and is with the MSU Ferret Health Advancement Group which it pays to learn about and be grateful exists: http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/ Insulinomas can be multi-hormonal and on rare basis they can actually produce estrogen. How is that for unexpected? That seemed like the sort of thing which could be very useful to have in the archives for when a rare case like that crops up. The Ferret Health Advancement Group at MSU is always in need of contributions. Yes, they are fully tax deductible since the donation is to part of a state university. Studying the diseases of ferrets and finding ways to save ferret lives is anything except cheap. If you can find ways to help them the ferrets whose lives you help save may be your own ferrets. If you happen to know someone in the public eye who may be willing to openly help advance ferret veterinary knowledge that could snowball into other donations. Such contacts to pass along to the MSU group would be greatly appreciated. It's all about saving ferrets, isn't it? 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/ http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/ http://www.ferretcongress.org/ http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html all ferret topics: http://listserv.ferretmailinglist.org/archives/ferret-search.html [Posted in FML 6429]