This is from another book: 'What's a Ferret' by Sid Yost, Brad Limberg, with Dick Kimbrough. copyright 1977. These gentleman started Colorado Ferrets, inc. the 'nation's largest supplier of baby ferrets' in the early 1970's, this is where my first ferret came from. Quite a few years before Marshall Farms started. Again, like I mentioned in my last post, they talk about footrot, the common cold, fleas, ear mites. Nothing about anemia in un-spayed ferrets. It just says 'the female will come into heat and grow so nervous and high strung that her health will be harmed.' Yikes! Must be why my first ferret, Louise, died of aplastic-anemia, because I did NOT get her spayed in time. Tried to breed her twice, but resulted in no babies. My manger at the pet store where I worked, offered to pay me for a supply of baby ferrets! And it says: 'Though ferrets are quite healthy, they may contact the following diseases: canine distemper, feline distemper, human, bovine, and avian tuberculosis, hem-strepts, toxoplasmosis, some human strains of influenza, pseudocyesis, pyometra mastitis, and autoimmine-hemolytic anemias.' Hmmm, maybe Sukie can enlighten me/us on some of those.... what they are...and even if they exist anymore...:) Some of course I've heard of, but.... Hem-strepts? Pseudocyesis? Again though, no mention of any kind of cancers..... Lymphoma, Adrenal, etc. Joan and the 7 Fuzzies [Posted in FML 6905]