To the person whose ferret was losing an alarming amount of weight: When that happened to my little C-pi last summer, it turned out she had kidney disease. Unless you're fairly sure it's something else, you might want to consider a urine test to look for excess protein. Bowl tippers: I keep my ferrets from tipping over water bowls (one of their favorite union activities) by purchasing the heavy ceramic kind -- my furrballs are not quite strong enough to lift those. Linda, Espie, Frankie, Lucky Charminator, and Angel [Posted in FML issue 1129]