Hi All, I've been a lurker for quite a while and have enjoyed reading everyone's posts. My husband and I have slowly reached the point of having 5 beautiful ferrets. - Slinky (4 1/2) - Our first and now quite anti-social (to other ferrets) little girl. - Willie (3 1/2) - An adoptee from the Fact Shelter that was supposed to be Slinky's bud. - Baby (2) a rescue from down the street and now Willie's other half - Modean and Doolittle (Deany and Dooey) (4 1/2 and 2) Our latest shelter adoptees that we now love dearly. Modean came to us hairless from the neck down. He was a Badger wanabee but diagnosed with an adrenal tumor. That was about 4 months ago and he's since regrown his hair making us doubt the original diagnosis. He just gave us a scare by developing a bump on the side of his nose. We feared a tumor and had a few tense days. It turned out to be an abcess and we are still draining his poor cut face. We have a ferret friendly vet but I felt more knowledgeable having read so many Ferret Digests. I thought I had read here that ferrets didn't sedate well. When the vet gave Deany a tranquilizer that knocked him out in 1 minute, I questioned the need for additional sedation. I was just worried about him and even hated to leave him! The vet must have been worried, too, because he didn't give him additional sedation to cut open the bump. It was an abcess and we all breathed a sigh of relief. We brought him home the same day and hugged him a lot. There were tears on my keyboard reading about poor buddy. I was feeling the pain. I sometimes think we love our little creatures too much! >my question is - do people on this list have tattoos of ferrets?? When I saw the topic >Ferret tattoos< I, too, thought of the kind that go on humans. I tried to get my husband a gift certificate for one as a Christmas present but the artist needed a picture of the design so he could give me a price. I felt Robert would want to choose a design so that's going to have to wait til after Christmas. Happy Holidays everyone and keep safe Maureen [Posted in FML issue 1426]