More on the USA cancer problem: I've heard people say that the cancer rate in ferrets here is just "too high to be genetic", which makes us all very concerned about the chemicals in the food we're feeding our little ones. This is an issue that people are just now starting to notice, so we should be hearing study results within a few years. (Which isn't very good news to all of us who's furries probably won't be around that long, and if they are, the damage will already be done.) Personally, when my current batch of food runs out, I think I'm going to try and find some all natural food and see how my girls do on it. Anyway, my question, Urban, is what is the general diet of Swedish ferrets? Is it significantly different than ours? Another question (annoying, aren't I...), are there ferret farms over there that are anything on the scale of our Marshall Farms or Path Valley Farms? If not, that could be a major factor in all this, since they did inbreed for so long, screwing up the gene pool over here. - Nancy Nancy Hartman CIS graduate student [log in to unmask] U. of Delaware President and founder, Delaware Valley Ferret Club Owner of Percy & Bree [Posted in FML issue 0377]