Hi all! Its spring again and the ferrets are doing a lot of changing right now. I know that one of the major changes that is happening in the ferrets is weight changes. I have two ferrets and they are both changing a lot right now. Taz has lost a lot of weight, but I am not worried about that. He is still quite active and I have read that they can lose up to about 40% of their body weight in the spring. The one that confuses me is TJ. He has been eating like a pig and has become quite rolly-polly. I remember somebody mentioning that the way to tell if your ferret is fat is to hold them up by their front feet/shoulder area and let then hang. They should be sleek. Well, TJ is beginning to bulge a little. Right now I am just planning on watching them for a while, but the question that persists is how do you put one on a diet and not the other one? They live in the same cage and I free feed them. Thanks for the info. Ellen Taz (now that I'm skinny again, I can get into more places.) TJ (I'm not fat! there is just more of me to love.) [Posted in FML issue 1549]