Does anyone know how to deal with ferret disputes? A few months ago we a female kit (Ruffle) to the crew. Meltdown - our year old female from Hell - decided that she needed the position that Ruffle would move into and has been hard at work to remove the intruder. We've never had any problems with violent ferret fights until now, but Meltdown is very serious (she goes for the throat and draws blood). Meltdown has no problems with our two older ferrets and the older crew has no trouble with Ruffle. Does anyone have any experience with a "ferret from Hell"? Any suggestions would be appreciated. [How old is Ruffle? Is she full-grown? We had a similar problem when our male was introduced to Mocha. Soon as Toby outmassed her by a factor of three, the attacks stopped, or rather, after Toby threw her across the room a couple of times. (Toby was a big klutz, his play tended to bowl everybody else over, he was never vicious). Ferrets sometimes have to go thru dominance games. If possible, you should leave 'em together to finish off the "trial", but if Meltdown is drawing blood, you'll have to wait until Ruffle can handle herself. Or, it may stop after you have Ruffle spayed. Has Meltdown been spayed?] On the message about the sick ferret -- we see a seasonal weight change of 50% in all of our guys along with hair loss in the Summer. We use activity as an indicator of health more than anything. Steve, Sukie, Fritter, Hjalmar, Meltdown and Ruffle Crandall ulysses!esc [Posted in FML 0107]