In part of a forwarded message a few days ago: > (They seem to get really sick real fast.) I think this is the critical lesson of all this -- pay close attention to your ferrets and TAKE THEM TO THE VET when there's something amiss. We need to do this with Rael next week because she just hasn't been playing recently very much. It may be the winter light, or it may be something else. Case in point: several months ago, we noticed that one of Glitz's eyes seemed to be a bit cloudy. We brought her in, and it turned out that the eye had an infection from a trauma. The vet gave us some antibiotics to put in the eye, and two other types of eye stuff (one of them, I forget which, to go in EIGHT times a day), and said that Glitz probably would lose some vision. Well, we religiously caught that ferret and put the gunk in her eye (and usually it required two people for the times we had to put more than one type of thing in), and a week later the vet gave us some more drops, which we put in, and several weeks later, the eye was JUST FINE. Partly because we did what the vet asked, and Glitz mostly cooperated (Rael was upset that we weren't pinioning her, of course), but she would have definitely lost vision in one eye, and been in danger of the infection spreading, if we hadn't brought her in when we suspected something was wrong. ___________ Sherman Dorn Vanderbilt University [log in to unmask] [Posted in FML issue 1061]