Thank you Sheena and Robin for the great advice for our Biff. Tomorrow we are taking Biff and Beige to the vet to get them checked out since the previous owners didn't get them their shots, and also to get Biff looked at. But, our vet is just learning about ferrets, I give him anything I find so that he can be well knowledged about these things, and I am scared that our Biff may not be in the best of hands. So I am writing to anyone who can help. Since my last post, we have been noticing things. One of our friends has a two month old ferret, and since we built her a cage, we also built her sister a cage for her month old ferret. They came by tonight and she also works at the vet's office, but she is just a receptionist, but also knows things. She looked at Biff and she noticed that he was very fragile, even though he doesn't look it. He is covered with fur, like he is half Angola, but he is so brittle. He eats and eats, and he has a stomach on him, but is bony on his bottom half and from his shoulders up. It is like those commercials you see on T.V. with the starving children being bones, but having big bellies. We also watched and noticed that he will begin to eat real good, then all of a sudden he will start slobbering at the mouth, to the point to where it is just running off his mouth. We then noticed something puzzling. . . he would take a bite of food, vomit it up, then re-eat it. I know it sounds gross, but it looks worse. Our friend said she thinks it might be a head injury, or maybe he has something wrong to where he can't digest or something. He is perfectly normal in every other sense. The wheezing he does, we thought that maybe he was congested, but he ain't. So we thought that maybe he snores, but he isn't. Our friend says that maybe he has a broken nose or something, maybe it is blocked off somehow when he sleeps. It would kinda make since for we rescued him and Beige from a family that *the children weren't interested in them anymore,* kinda thinking that it was the kids *responsibility* instead of getting proper care. We ruled out it being a cold, because Beige was with him all the time, and he feels *fine.* We noticed on Beige's head a troubling thing, it seems that his skull was fractured before and healed wrong, like it overlapped. It starts above the *between part* of the eyes and goes to the middle of the top. He is very scared of being picked up. When you go to pick him up, he throws all four legs out, like he feels he is free-falling, and as soon as he feels your shirt, he *claws* on. You have to pry him off you, and he shakes when he is being held. We think he was dropped too many times, or maybe thought to be a great toy to the kids. He is starting to relax, laying in our arms and sniffing around, but when you make a sudden move, he grabs on and begins to shake. He is healthy in every other sense, gaining weight, laying with the others, ate some hot food tonight (while being held), even chased Blanco a while, but as soon as he was put back in the cage, he frantically, sniffed every ferret until he found Biff, then he went and laid on top of Ba-leigh. I swear you can look in his big black eyes and see the horror of his life and you feel like crying and holding him forever. I thank God that Mama got the two, for I believe they would have been separated. Mama practically cries every time she sees them, we know so little of them, but can sense a lot. When she holds Beige, or sees Biff eating or hears him sleeping, you can see the hurt in her eyes. Our vet is learning, but I need some suggestions of what could be wrong with Biff. ANYTHING would be better than nothing. I am sending this to Ferret-Forum and FML. I know that I will not get a response from FML readers till Wednesday, but I am sure Mama will be willing to drive back to the vet with any information available. He is willing to know all he can about ferrets so that he can use all his power to help them. I am scared he will not be able to find anything he can notice wrong with Biff. And clearly there is something wrong. Again thank you Sheena and Robin, you helped lots, and we will be able to use your info. also in the future. Toni & All Bandit, Brey, Belle, Brock, Blackee, Blanco, Ba-leigh, Beige & Biff Picayune, Mississippi [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask] [Posted in FML issue 1829]