Dear Dr. Williams, Dr. Weiss, and Laura L'Heureux: Thank you very much for your kind advice regarding Sneaker's adrenal problem. She underwent surgery on December 27. We took her to the vet office at 8:00 am; the surgery lasted about 2 and half hours. She rested in an old incubator at the office until 5:00 pm and we took her home that evening. She slept almost all day the following day and now wants to play with other ferrets!! She now has a 2-inch zipper on her clean shaven belly (as if she has more hair to loose :-) ) Unfortunately, the lesions were found on both adrenal glands and our vet removed the left gland which had a larger lesion. The good side is that the tumors were confined to the adrenal glands; other internal organs were intact. To date we see no signs of complications from surgery. We have been giving her 0.33 cc of prelone every day until next Tuesday (after that every other day) besides 0.25 mg of amoxycillin twice a day. She takes chicken baby food very well and gradually starts eating the mixture of cat food and ferret chow. We hope removing one adrenal gland improves her condition slightly. Thinking back about the surgery, we cannot give enough thanks for the advice we received. If it weren't for the FML we wouldn't have thought of scheduling surgery early in the morning and would have left Sneaker unsupervised over- night. Also a direct result of reading the FML is that we rescued Sneaker and gave her surgery. Without all of you in Ferretland we wouldn't have known about the adrenal tumors and what to do about them. We are scheduled to get the stitches out the first week of January. We'll keep everyone posted about Sneaker's progress. And Laura P McDonald, thank you for sharing your heartbreaking experience with 'Possum's teeth. We will keep a close eye on Mythril's teeth so that 'Possum's death will not be a total loss. Happy, happy ferret new year!! Yuki and Mike Busch and 4 wonderful fuzzies (Swamp, Nuke Skyjacker, Mythril and Precious Sneaker) Ft. Collins, Colorado [Posted in FML issue 1060]