Well, I took both of them to the vet and it looks like Pico has a bit of a urinary tract or bladder infection. The vet is having the urine sample that Pico so convieniently (and unexpectedly) volunteered cultured to make sure. Meanwhile, she's on some atibiotics that she seems to like ok. This is the good news. The bad news is that the afternoon I brought them home, and the next day, Nitro started having some diarhea. It wasn't enough to notice at first but by 6:00pm he suddenly got worse. I don't know if it's that virus that's been going around in the east but it sure looks like it. He drank a little on his own but didn't seem to be eating (I isolated him when it was apparent he was sick), and was looking quite bad. I called the vet only to get an answering service that couldn't give any answers. They said to call in the morning when the vet was open. They are supposed to have emergency service there. In any event he really was looking bad so I got some turkey baby food, mixed in some water to thin it a bit and fed him using the seringe that i had been given to give Pico her antibiotic (no needle.) He didn't really like this but didn't spit it out either and I got half a bottle of the babyfood into him which is what the insilinoma cases at the shelter get. I also gave him a ittle water with a bit of Karo's corn syrup the same way. A half hour later he seems more alert. His last stool wasn't quite as runny although still green and slimey. Needless to say I'll be up most of the night and at the vet's front door when they open. I just hope this doesn't get passed to my other two ferrets. All of this is happening at a pretty bad time since I'm supposed to go out of town over the week of thanksgiving. I'm having no luck finding a boarding service. I'm going to look into in home care since that worked out well the last time (a friend did it). Needless to say, if they aren't all healthy by that time I'll probably have to cancel since I wouldn't be able to enjoy myself anyway if I was constantly worried about the critters. I'll keep you all updated. [Posted in FML issue 0631]