To Eric Schwartz and Hershey: Not being a vet, of course I encourage you to go to the vet: you might consider doing a blood test, if the vet advises. If your baby-sitter gave too much linatone, you might cut back on that stuff. More than one ferret has hyper-vitamized on linatone. (Keep it to two or three drops a day.) More than about two raisins can give diarrhea, so you might want to find a high calorie supplement which doesn't contain a lot of vitamins. We use Nutrical (some vets have it cheaper than pet shops), which messes a little with the digestion but which is an excellent substitute for "real food" when the ferrets stop eating to keep them from wasting away. Somebody might consider posting the Duck Soup recipe for Hershy's benefit. This stuff is great, as I recall, for ferrets off their feed for one reason or another. It's possible Hershey just missed you: ours have scared us a couple of times by just going off their feed for a week or so with no apparent reason. It worried me at first, and I still go to the vet, but they always come back fine. (Winston once broke a week-long fast in the vets waiting room, just to make me look silly.) [Posted in FML issue 0931]