I want to give an update on Noid's condition to see what people think at this point. It's been a week and a half since I discovered the small lump under the skin of her neck. I have no idea how long it has actually been there. There hasn't been any noticeable change in size, and she still doesn't appear to feel any pain when I apply gentle pressure. Then again, ferrets are so poker-faced that you usually can't tell if they're hurting or not. She just looks at me as if to say, "Why are you doing that? If you're not going to pet me then just put me down and let me go play." When I called the vet this week I spoke to the other doctor (as in the one I _didn't_ speak to the first time). He said that they'd observed similar reactions in dogs to rabies vaccinations, but this was the first of their ferret patients to react in this way. The lump _is_ in the approximate place where she was given the injection. He said that these lumps take 1 or 2 months to go away. It's been 5 1/2 to 6 weeks since she was vaccinated. I'm supposed to keep tabs on the size of the lump and whether or not it becomes tender. Since the vet suspects that this is just scar tissue from the injection, he said that the worst case would be that it could abcess if it isn't reabsorbed soon. There's always the chance that this is a tumor, but the vet said that it would be unusual to see a tumor in such a young (4 1/2 months) animal. So, we'll see... --Greg [Posted in FML issue 0383]