Well, a little more bad news. Our first ferret, Honey, died almost three weeks ago, I haven't felt up to relaly talking about it until now. He was five months old and a MF ferret. What happened is a bit of a long story. We were in the middle of moving from Wyoming to Colorado and the first night after packing, we heard HOney throwing up in the middle of the night. We figured that he might have eaten something he shouldn't have because of all the upset around the house and gave him some Laxatone to see if it would help. The next night, while we were packing furiously becase that was the night we had to leave Wyoming, his throwing up was getting worse and we noticed he was looking thinner. We called the emergency vet service number and took him in. HOney had a barium series of X-rays, but the vet didn't see anything. He gave Honey a little subcutanious fliud (not much, he didn't tolerate it well) and said that it might have been indigestion and the barium might make him feel better, but that we should take him in to the vet when we got to Colorado. Well, the first day or two, he did seem to be feeling better, but the vomitting started getting worse and worse again, and he got very thing all of a sudden, so we went to the vet here. When we got him there, they felt a mass in his tummy and decided to do surgery. By the time he went into surgery, he was so weak they didn't dare anestetize him. The discovered that the mass was just compressed feces and he actually had a lymphoma that had metasticized into his intestines. He died during the surgery. *sigh* (BTW, excuse some of the spelling errors, I can't spell tonight, so I asked my roommate, and I'm sur he told me some wrong spellings). WE were told that he probably had the cancer his entire life and it might have contributed to him being so undersized. (He didn't even weigh two pounds.) Well, our other ferret, Taz, was just heartbroken. He seemed depressed and started following Kirk and I around constantly like he wa safraid we would disappear. We fell in love with another kit in a pet store and bought her (her name is Coffee), but of course, we still miss our baby and Taz still misses him a lot too, and will still follow us both around if we're out of the house for very long. But Coffee is helping to fill the hole in our hearts and house. On a subject a bit less depressing, one of our local pet stores is willing to order Totally Ferret for us, but they need the name and address and phone number of the company that makes it...could someone help us out here? It would be much appreciated. [Moderator's note - I already replied to Michelle with this info. BIG] Michelle PS...thanks for sitting through the long story [Posted in FML issue 1092]