Bido wrote: >My 7mth old female varmit has an odd looking "pus pocket" in the back of >her mouth, almost in her throat. ... Whoa, deja vu! My fuzzbutt had exactly the same thing around 6 months ago. It looked like a white blister on the roof of her mouth, close to her throat. When my vet poked it, it felt hard, like it was a tumour. At that time, he said it looked like lymphosarcoma (ie. deadly cancer) and I spent the next couple of days in serious depression. He removed the lump, and I guess it was pretty close to a vein in her mouth, so he had to be really careful. But everything went fine, and she was completely healed in a couple of weeks. The lab tests said it was a "keratinizing epithezial cyst" which is strange for ferrets, since the skin in their mouths doesn't have keratin in it. This is what my vet said, but I couldn't get anyone on the FML to answer any questions about these things. Anyways, it wasn't cancer, and she hasn't had any other problems with cysts since, so I'm a happy camper. I'm a bit ticked about the snap diagnosis my vet made about the lymphosarcoma, since I'm not even sure that a white growth in a ferret's mouth is related to lymph node cancer at all. But that's another story... [Posted in FML issue 1649]