I'm glad that Dr. Williams answered Judy about her two surgery situation. Weezul has every physical and behavioral symptom that screams of adrenal disease. Apparently your vets are not familiar with Occam's Razor. I can't believe they ignore a very common problem that presents all of these symptoms and pursue these more arcane possibilities that are proving to be dead ends. I have a ferret that had an adrenal removed. At the time of surgery, the other looked normal. After 3 months of recovery, the problem has returned and he is now scheduled for a 2nd surgery. Here is another case of a "good" looking organ gone bad. If a cursory visual examine were enough, pathology would not exist. Get the adrenals tended to by your current vet or another one that will listen, you are the customer! (I tried to e-mail this direct, but every permutation of the address failed.) The BFF is NOT threatened with extinction on June 1st. I belong to an organization that helps fund the effort and we get regular reports. There are now five breeding sites to prevent a single point failure in the program. These older ferrets were the original wild captures and these and all others are handled very carefully to prevent any acclimation to humans. They are not tame. The coyotes are more of a direct threat as a carrier of distemper than as a predator. The fact that there are any wild births from the released animals is a positive change. Remember, the whole purpose is to return the BFF as a viable WILD species. At the risk of seeming callous, eggs have to be broken to make an omelet. A lot of learning about the problems is gained from the failures. There are plenty of caring people involved in this. Got to go get ready to travel to England to queue up for the free ferrets! [Posted in FML issue 1203]