first of all, thanks to all of you who answered my plea for help! I really appreciated hearing from people... Monday morning I decided Damien looked sick, so I brought him into the vet also. He was dehydrated. The vet taught me how to do subcutaneous fluid injections so I kept Damien with me and also brought home Baby. Celeste does not seem to have been affected. I'm giving all three Albon in case they have Coccidiosis, and I'm giving Amoxicillin to Damien and Baby to prevent secondary infection. Dr. Williams and my vets both seemed to think that Coccidiosis was likely. So now I'm giving Baby fluids twice a day, and Damien fluids just once a day since he looks so good now. Damien's eating his own Iams kibbles now and when he seems back to normal strengthwise I'll stop his fluids. When Baby first came back home after 3 days in the hospital he seemed really dazed and when he tried to move he completely dragged his rear end since he was so week. But now I've been forcefeeding him Modified Duck Soup for two days and now he pretty much uses all four legs to get around but he's very wobbly. He's also painfully thin!! his spine juts out. in fact all his bones jut out. However he's been crawling all over my room today so I think he's feeling better. The pet store just called me this evening. The said they had the results of Ulysses' (the new one from the pet store) autopsy. He had had a tumor in his spleen and parvo. I'm not sure whether these results are from Dr. Williams or the other place they sent tissue samples to. I'll talk to my vet tomorrow morning and find out more details. so if this assessment is correct, then I assume that Baby has (had?) parvo. What exactly is parvo? i didn't think ferrets got it. i would appreciate any info on this that you people can give me. the manager of the pet store also seemed concerned about my other ferrets. she seems pretty cool so hopefully this will work out okay. so now i'm just trying to put food into Baby and increase his strength. if you have any advice for me please write or call me! i'll keep you all updated on my situation... thanks again, jill (603-643-8709) [Posted in FML issue 1107]