I have an older albino male who had an adrenal gland excised last March. In July "Scooter" showed distinct symptoms that he had a tumor on both glands.( Weakness, hairloss, etc. The Doc put him on a regimin of lysodrin to counteract the overproduction of glandular secretions, and steroids to get his weight back.) He is off both now. His weight is recovered but his life is much diminished and cute personality changed by extreme nervousness. Scooter shakes and quivers constantly, exhibits fits of nervous scratching almost like a nervous tic, and is extremely sensitive to sudden noise. He hates to be picked up now. The Doc here is a Dallas suburb who has a pretty extensive ferret practice, told me he has seen many such cases, The loss of almost all body hair is not uncommon. But he has never seen such nervousness in other cases. He put Scooter on sedatives; first phenobarbitol, It worked minimally. Now we just started Diazipam ( veterinary Valium). I'm sending this to the FML at large and a copy to Dr Williams. Anybody have any ideas what we should do or where we should go from here to get our old Scooter back? [Posted in FML issue 1023]