I need advice on my ferret's dry, cracking pads of their feet. This is the first year that any of them have had this problem. Out of the four of them, they all seem to be experiencing this, two of them worse then the others. Their cage is a Midwest but we have built 4 extra floors in it. 2 of the floors we have covered with lanoliem (sp?) and the other two are just wire. We left them wire because one floor is their food floor and the other is the bathroom. Could this amount of wire flooring cause this? What can I put on their paws that is non-toxic to them? I don't want to have to cover these two floors for sanitary reasons. Also, they are all shedding so incredibly much. It's been going on for over two weeks now and their winter coats don't seem to be getting any thinner! I don't ever remember it being this bad before. Is this normal? Any advice on either of these subjects would be so helpful. Private e-mail would be best since I'm usually a few days behind on reading the FML. Thanks! Lisa and her four greatful fuzzies; Roan, Laney, Felix and Sullivan - e-mail: [log in to unmask] [Posted in FML issue 1855]