Last night my albino ferret tried to vomit. She does this every so many months and my vet and I can not figure out what is wrong. Usually she does not throw up anything, but you can hear gurgling in her stomach (similar to the growl of a hungry stomach). I pick her up, hold her, pat her back (in case it is gas or something similar) and then she wants down. She then proceeds to wander around as if nothing is wrong. When this first started she did vomit food for a day, and the emergency vet gave her subcutaneous fluids injections and gave her predinose (spelling?). Since then we've tried the cycle of three medications (pepto., amox., and pred.) for the stomach bacteria/ulcer. We've tried an injection of reglan/dexammmethasone on 5/13/96. that day she started trying to vomit so I took her straight to the vet, in the hope we could figure out the cause. By the evening she was fine. Whether it was due to time or the injection we can't tell. Yesterday's event, she was fine after five minutes and did not try to vomit again after I picked her up. I once heard about a ferret vomiting to get attention. Is this really possible? Certainly, these day time it happened my husband had just arrived back from a trip the day before. So was she trying to say I missed you now play with me? Any suggestions would be appreciated. My vet and I have discussed exploratory work with an endoscope to take tissue samples. This would run over $200. We're afraid to spend that much if it tells us nothing and hurts her, when there are no other symptoms or problems. Please reply to [log in to unmask] since I am always behind the FML. Thanks, Cheryl and Sneeuw. [Posted in FML issue 1631]