Hi all, First off, a brief introduction of our kids: Socks - (temp name until we get to know her better) A black sable mitt; until we get her papers we are assuming she is around 3 months old. She is very light but otherwise healthy. I just received her yesterday as a birthday present. She is a sweetheart. Dixie - A beautiful three month old albino female. Sweetest thing on four legs. Goes poop on command and if she doesn't have to go...she fakes it ;-). Clyde - A handsome 5 year old chocolate male. Just came back from his first geriatric exam and he passed with flying colors. One of the few exceptions to the statement you can love a ferret to the point they don't bite any more. He has been loved and pampered for 5 years and he still will bite hard enough to draw blood. He is not malicious in his bites and we have tried everything we have ever read to get him to stop. He will be very loving and giving kisses one minute and bite the next. Our solution is to give him a healthy respect. He is held in such a way that he doesn't get much of an opportunity to bite, but still gets loving. We also have 5 children of the feline persuasion - Little Bit, T.C., Tigger, Ludicrous, and Anna; One fine feathered child - Rebel - a mexican red head parrot; and to round it all out 11 freshwater fish. Clyde is the one that experiences episodes of grainy poop. A little Kaopectate gets it back to normal for a while but then the grainy poop comes back. As I mentioned above, he just had his geriatric examination and everything was normal. Our vet mentioned that she has another ferret patient that is experiencing grainy poop but that it is all the time. She isn't sure what is causing it. Just wanted to check to see if anyone else has experienced this. To give a more accurate description of what I have seen with Clyde, the poop is usually a normal dark brown (we feed Totally Ferret so our guys poop is normally dark brown) but it doesn't have the normal form. It appears to be loose but then I notice that their are lots of little grains of poop. He doesn't strain or have a tender belly. Once I give a little kaopectate it goes back to normal. Any suggestions? Cindy and the gang [Posted in FML issue 1713]