We have a male ferret under a year, he weighs 4 lbs, and is a fat waddly thing, and he loves to sleep on his back, with all legs spread out, makes it easy for me to rub his tummy, our 3 other ferrets sleep all curled up, possibably maybe there isn't enough room for them to sprawl out cause of Bear hogging the room. The first time I saw him sleep that way, I got nervous, but he was in a deep state of sleep, and I could pick him up and be totally limp, but then awakened and was normal in every way. Sometimes, i find him down on the lower floor next to the food, sleeping there as well, waiting to get a jump on more food when its time to eat? LOL I met someone in the Christian Chat room and he is from Canada, and owns a ferret, female, we talked about our little fuzzies and he stated that his ferret is 3 years old and weighs only 1 lb. I doubled checked his statement, and said Oh no, surly she weighs more, my female is very light, but I weighed her and she weighs 2 lbs, and he said no, been weighed at the vets and weighs just over a pound. I asked what he feeds her and he said, a very expensive cat food. I talked to him about protein levels and fish verses animal.He claimed that he has a friend that raises ferrets and gets his info from them and his ferret was just fine. I wasnt implying that he was doing anything wrong, just discussing the food and sharing information. My question, is it normal for a ferrets weight to be at a pound, I left the conversation with, "Well she's just a peanut." :) Marti Smith BTW, I am getting more people interested in the FML from talking to them in the chat rooms, and I forward copies of it to them to read, and let them subscribe, and they love the FML. and thank me when they see me again for sending them the fml to read and join [Posted in FML issue 1824]