to Sherman Dorn: Ferret hammocks can be easy to make, and inexpensive. i learned a neat trick from the former owner of one of my ferrets. he would take an old t-shirt and simply knot the sleves and two bottom corners of the shirt to one end of his cage, making a square hammock. if you have a large cage, you can make a triangular hammock in the same manner in a corner. they are inexpensive, and easy to wash and change (this comes in handy when the evil flea season strikes.) i recomend this method because it is yet another way to recycle, and the ferrets love the hammocks i have made. to Dr.Williams: One of my ferrets, Big, recently had a cyst removed from her front left paw. it was fine, and healing well for two weeks, then my boyfriend and i noticed that her stiches were swelling up circularly in the form of the cyst that was "removed." is it possible for a cyst to come back, and if so, is it because not all of the cyst was removed? also, what is a cyst, and how do they develop? (how did she get one in the first place?) thanks... jon_anne, who cleans up the litter bartok, who plays in the litter and big, who ignores the litter [Posted in FML issue 1033]