Kim Thomas asked about her vet's advice to give her ferret Laxatone. From my own personal experience, I say your vet is absolutely right! About a week and a half ago I posted "diagnosis of a thin ferret" - the story of how my newly-adopted Nicky had just undergone stomach surgery. My vet thought he had an abdominal tumor because of the lump that was very noticeable there, but it turned out to be a huge solid wad of fur in his stomach. This wad was a good 3 inches long and just over 1 inch wide. It must have been accumulating for a long time, and when Nicky came to us, he had a long history of being very thin. He just couldn't eat enough because his stomach was so full of this object. It was amazing that he was even able to digest his food at all. But his digestive process must have been hindered, because even though on the day of his surgery he finished eating at 9:00 am, the food was still in his stomach when the vet opened it up at 2:00 pm, five hours later. Nicky is doing wonderfully - gaining weight, extremely lively and bright-eyed. I also had another ferret, my first one, Odie, who was enclined to get hair in his stomach. He wouldn't feel good and was constipated. I would feed him some Laxatone, and he would go shortly thereafter, with a lot of hair in it. [Posted in FML issue 1720]