Well, Molly is going into the Vet's tomorrow. She started losing fur (underfur, mostly) on her tail and back last Sept., but since that is when i moved, and moved, and got my new boy Leo, the Vet (and I) thought it was probably just stress. I tried to keep her and Leo seperated as much as was possible at the time, and her fur did grow back within a month or two. Well, now it is going again. Again, it is the fur on her tail (not completely bald, but pretty shabby looking) and on her bum. You can really see all the skin on her bum (which is also quite bony). I don't know what to think because she is a very sensitive ferret (extremely attached to me...as i am to her) and i did just spend a couple of weeks away from her in the hospital, and we did have to move back home, and she and Leo have been forced to spend large amounts of time in their one big cage together. Leo loves her too much and won't leave her alone--he kissed her ear so much one night that when we went in to check on them her ear was bright red. We are keeping them apart more now (one out in the room, while one is in the cage, and then switching). I haven't been able to find a Vet. in Southern Ontario who is very knowledgeable (or at all!) about ferrets, but I have been told the one we are going to see tomorrow "specializes" in them. I have my doubts. That probably just means this Vet. is willing to deal with them at all. So, any advice you more knowledgeable folks could give me would be GREATLY appreciated. Are you thinking stress? Adrenal? Something else? Could Leo have licked the fur off of her? What should i be doing? Molly is also very skinny and not nearly as energetic as she used to be (before last September when it all began). I find myself giving her Ensure fairly often to put some weight back on her. Thank-you very much, Norma-ann...a really concerned mom. [Posted in FML issue 1476]