I have 2 separate situations related to sick ferrets: The 1st has to do with our 2 year old female. She is in good health (up to this point), although she sleeps a lot, and she does not eat as much as many ferrets we've encountered. She's been having diarhea off and on for the past few days. Not only is her stool loose and runny, it's also sometimes bright green in color. FACTORS TO CONSIDER: We've had her with us on the road as we drove home from Nebraska. We thought she might be car sick--our drive time totalled 36 hours over a 3 day weekend. Now we're home, we thought she'd feel better. The OTHER factor is that we thought she might be acting (or reacting) weird towards our new 6 month old baby boy ferret which we bought in Nebraska. They fight and bite and wrestle, but we keep an eye on them. So we're at a loss with this one, and a trip to the vet is in our near future. The other situation has to do with a baby boy ferret that we saw in a pet shop in Nebraska. He was six weeks old and fixed and de-scented. His stomach was bloated and his anus/rectum stuck out far (definitely beyond the way they sometimes stick out). He seemed good natured, and he liked to play and bite, but his condition concerned us. The girl at the counter said that his condition was due to overeating, and she called him "chubby" and she said that his anus was like it was because of the the switch from soft food to hard food (or something like that). She definitely didn't seem to know anything at all. And this baby ferret was not chubby, he was bloated and far too round in just the stomach area. We called a few local vets, and they told us that we probably shouldn't take it in, as we'd be asking for a lot of vet bills. So the least we could do was report the pet store to an Animal Care and Control type facility and they are going to go down and investigate. Any helpful information would be much appreciated. [Posted in FML issue 1832]