Nancy, I'm afraid I have to take exception to your comment in Issue 414 about the manufacturers of Ferretone purposely labelling for a higher dose simply to make money. I don't pretend to know anywhere near as much about ferret nutrition as you do, so I hate to argue this point, but I felt is was an unfair statement. I am a vet student, so I am by no means naive concerning the motives of pharmaceutical companies. However, I would strongly hesitate to believe that any company would be stupid enough to cut it's own throat by purposely mislabelling a drug (it is, however minor, a drug). That is illegal and would stand them a very good chance of getting sued as soon as the first ferret came up with vitamin acidosis. I feel it more likely that the stuff simply is made less concentrated than that for dogs or cats -- it's such a must for ferrets that I can see them doing *that* just to sell more. I was suspicious of the seemingly high dose after all I'd heard on the list when I first got Trella, so I checked with one of our two local ferret vets (the one the Central Illinois Friends of Ferrets shelter trusts its ferrets to) and he said that the label was right. Sorry; I don't want to start an argument, but I just felt someone (albeit a company that probably deserves it for something else!) was being accused unjustly with no means of defense. Laura Laura L'Heureux and Trella, too U. of Illinois VM96 [log in to unmask] [Posted in FML issue 0416]