Concerning the MFFF, my older boys stuck there nose up at it....even mixed in with their regular food....(I've found the protein content higher, and the taste yummier, in Maxcat kitten and Tammi ANF---plus the price a little less(not much) than the IAMS/SD combo that I started with) and all four went off the entire mixture for the one night I fed it...they didn't eat anything. Usually Willie will be doing his morning grazing at the bowl when I get up and let them out... NOTHING! BUT, the two new kits I have scarfed it up quite easily! So I do think the initial imprinting of whatever you feed your babies has a lot to do with what they eat later on. To Michelle and her sick kids....with the scare at last years east coast shows, I thought my Stimpy had come down with the greenies, along with some of my room mates kits at the time, but all of them got over it relatively easy. Ferrets can and will have green diarrhea from various other viruses too...the "greenies" virus is distinct in that the cell shed a highly irritable toxin which lays the ferrets gut raw....this causes weeks of debilitation even after the virus is killed or run its course. Antibx help with secondary e. coli infections, etc. To Genevieve and Pixie.....have you tried mixing the totally crushed, powdered pill with dilutitone? (I call it dilutitone only to remind people to dilute that ferretone or linatone, please!<G>) IF Pixie is addicted to this as mine are, she may take it more readily. Michele and the gang! [Posted in FML issue 0845]