We thought we would keep everyone apprised of how our two new additions are fairing. We feel very lucky to have been chosen to be owned by these little ones. Spartan is a real cuddle bunny, he absolutely loves to be held and petted and loved on. He took right to us (after a few clumsy attempts at the weasel war dance he has it down pretty well) and he gets along with all of our others, however Job has a big time problem with him. He tried to attack Spartan, I'm not talking about the ruff play that he's known for, I'm talking about bottle brush tail wagging, hissing, baring teeth attacking (we intervened and no one was hurt, except Jobs feeling because we stopped him). We keep one put up while the other is out. We wonder if maybe since he is so newly neutered if it might take another week to get the male harmone smell out of his system, and if maybe that might mean that Job was an incomplete neuter? Any comments from the vets or anyone else more knowledgeable than us? I gave Spartan a hand held bath tonight hoping that maybe that would help, he wasn't impressed with it but he wasn't terrified either. I'm also taking Spartan back to the vet tomorrow as we found a brown mole like lump on his back by his shoulder blades and I'm so afraid it might be cancer, we already love him so much. Vets, any suggestions for my vet? Athena, is very timid and was a little nippy at first but is getting better already. But she is very intimidated by the other ferrets. She will tolerate Xena (my daughter's silver mit), but the others terrify her. We will introduce them later and very slowly. She is getting use to our touch and holding and cuddling her, hopefully someday she will seek it out. They both seem stunted in their growth. Our vet figures Spartan to be around 2 years old (he's only 2 & 1/2 lbs for a whole male, well , recently whole anyway), and Athena is only 1 & 1/2 lbs. My vet figures she less than 1 year old. We welcome suggestions about Job and Spartan. It really is not like Job at all which is why we wondered if maybe he was an incomplete neuter. Vicky and Rick [log in to unmask] [Posted in FML issue 1729]