So, Bob, ferrets are related to seals? Does this explain why, when I looked at the HSUS logo recently, I was convinced that the creature depicted on the bottom (downward facing) hand-was a ferret? I was so amazed, thinking they had changed their anti-ferret stance-until I looked a _little closer_! My first ferret, Karat, had mange-the kind you get from other people-scabies. She got two doses of Ivermectin. This was two years ago. We all got scabies from a poor old hospital patient who lived in a nursing home-you know how that spreads. The doctors I took my kids to wouldn't even _touch_ my kids! They were obviously afraid they'd catch it! Just prescribed Kwell. (Actually, there is something that works better that they finally prescribed but I forget the name.) Karat, BTW, has regrown her hair. In March, she will show signs of coming in heat once again, then lose her hair in the summer, and I guess this cycle will continue even though she is spayed. Right? I hate to keep re-iterating the same things-but if it were a tumor, would it be affected by light cycles or seasons? Of course she also has the swelling Karen. [Posted in FML issue 1413]