Michelle, This doesn't help much, but I thought I'd be a geeky enthusiastic first year vet student and say that in a few years I will be a ferret-specializing vet in the Virginia area -- I couldn't live with myself if I became a small animal vet and neglected to give ferrets special attention. My parents live in Bealeton, Va (Rt. 17 `tween Warrenton and Fredericksburg) and my fiancee lives in North Carolina, and we plan on going back out that way after finishing up school here in Illinois. Sorry I don't know anyone near Roanoke who can help -- if no one can give you a clue, please let me know and I'll call the vet I worked for in Charlottesville -- I just don't know if he'll know about Roanoke, but he might, so let me know if you hit all dead ends. :-) Laura L'Heureux and Trella, too U. of Illinois VM96 [log in to unmask] (Incidentally, Chris, this email system is Banyan Mail -- if you're really keen to know why it's such a rotten system and why we have such long email addresses, as Dr. Ron Smith at [log in to unmask] -- he's our computer lit/epidemiology professor (interesting combo, huh?)) [Posted in FML issue 0326]