To Anon concerning ticks: You're both right. It is rare for ferrets to get ticks, becuase most ferrets don't go outside. But if a ferret does go to an outdorr event, or get loose and wander around outside - if it passes through brush which is infested with ticks, it will pick them up just like any other animal.... -- Bruce Williams, DVM, DACVP Department of Veterinary Pathology [log in to unmask] Armed Forces Institute of Pathology [log in to unmask] Washington, D.C. 20306-6000 (202) 782-2600/2602 [Posted in FML issue 1188]