Dr Bruce Williams Perhaps you can help with a "problem child" I have here at the shelter. Little Red is a 3/4# sprite approximately 1 1/2 to 2 years old. She arrived here July 5, 1993 looking for all the world like a jill left much too long in heat. I put her in with my vasectomozed hob, who enjoyed his job very much. Nothing happened. Worried about just getting her out of heat (I have 3 vets who all felt she was whole and in heat), I let my breeding hob try to take her out. Nothing! Very concerned now, I opted for exploratory surgery feeling she was 1) a botched early spay or, 2) a bad adrenal. Now, Little Red developed a wonderful, thick coat once she arrived here...no baldness anywhere on her. The vet who did the surgery was shocked to find that she was, indeed, an early spay. No foreign tissue was found except for a tiny bit of grafted tissue on the left adrenal; it was removed and sent out for biopsy. Report came back as: "within normal parameters." STILL she wouldn't shrink. We did a CBC. She came back as "spayed". sigh Ok, so we did a urinalysis. Not a thing. Then she had a shot to take her out of heat. The stem of the vulva (in the beginning) measured 1" in length, the head about the size of a medium grape. By now (October) she is down to looking like a jill about 1 week into heat. Last week I checked her and she was the same size (last noted above). This week she is swelling again and looks almost ready to breed size. My males are chaffing at the bit to mate with her. Suggestions? Could the length of the uterine stump do the same thing as a piece of ovarian tissue? She still has a teriffic coat, is happy, healthy and plays with the kits; like a kit. She eats like a pig and her stools are normal. Rose Legion Of Superferrets of PA Shelter/Rescue [Posted in FML issue 0679]