No, the ferret we had who did it was not albino, not DEW, not marked white and not a roan-to-white. She was an unusual one and only began drinking through cloth when she became very ill. Ruffle had achondroplastic dwarfism, multiple deformations, asthma, arthritis, severe intellectual handicaps, and in her final year she developed 8 serious medical problems of which 5 were terminal conditions (liver cysts, heart tumor, cardiomyopathy, insulinoma in an inoperable part of the pancreas, and I forget the fifth one off hand). About the only common ferret health problem that was not among her health problems was adrenal disease; she never got adrenal disease. Her pathology decision by Dr. Bruce Williams was that she died of having so many serious illnesses at once. That sort of multiple disease burden happens, also, with some humans who have severe intellectual handicaps, BTW. Getting Suprelorin: <http://www.smallanimalchannel.com/critter-news/2012/06/29/deslorelin-drug-soon-more-readily-available-for-u-s-ferrets.aspx> http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/message/17644 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/message/17605 and others including the post from the person who first learned of the MUMS change and a post somewhere in the FHL from Tressie w Dr. Rosie Warren's new email but you can also find that at the new Virbac/Peptech Animal Health website. I lack spare time and knew that these 3 mention critical things to take into account. Sometime in the Third Quarter of THIS year Virbac U.S.A. will be distributing the Suprelorin Implants directly, so quite soon. Sukie (not a vet) Ferrets make the world a game. Recommended ferret health links: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/ http://ferrethealth.org/archive/ 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 "All hail the procrastinators for they shall rule the world tomorrow." (2010, Steve Crandall) On change for its own sake: "You can go really fast if you just jump off the cliff." (2010, Steve Crandall) [Posted in FML 7492]