Dr's, Weiss, Willams, and Duton, I purchased a very small male ferret yesterday from a local pet store (they knew almost nothing about them or they would have noticed there was something wrong with him - I did, I knew he had problems right after I picked him up). Anyway I had my vet look him over and he has a prolapsed rectum (my vet said she's seen the work of the Canadian vet on the health certificate before) which she has me putting Topagen on the area 3 times a day we are hoping it will help shrink the rectum. I would like more information incase he needs surgery for that. I won't give him back to the pet store because I know they would put him to sleep. My vet also wormed him because he has a protruding stomach but is very thin every where else. I have been carefully watching the stools but have not seen any worms. He appears deaf, has six toes on his right hind foot, I think his bone structure feels funny but maybe it's just that he's so thin. I've named him Job for obvious reasons. Job is a silver I think with a white head and in the light his eye are ruby red altho' they appear black when not in the light. I need to know what we are in for with possible birth defects and health problems so we can prepare. We want to give him a wonderful life for how ever long it is, he's such a sweetheart. He's barely 6 weeks old. Any help if you've seen this before would help. We are feeding Job a mix of Totally ferret, Iams kitten food, Marshall Farms ferret food and Kay Tee ferret food. We wet it down with warm water. We also keep the dry down for him too, his stools were more of little clumps almost like constipation when we got him, they are more normal now, the pet shop fed only dry food. For the time being we have him isolated from our other 11 ferrets because he's seems so fragile, they are eager to meet him but will have to wait until he's older or better. TIA Vicky [log in to unmask] [Posted in FML issue 1532]