Hello everyone, Last night was awful! At 3:45 A.M. I was awakened by a bizarre noise. I realized it was Monkey and I jumped out of bed and ran over to her cage. I wear contacts so I was blind as a bat since they were out - plus it was pitch black. I see Monkey jumping around in her cage and screaming and yell to my SO to turn on the lights. Monkey was hacking and kind of throwing up, but not much was coming out. I wasn't sure what was wrong and suddenly I realized she was choking on something. I remembered reading on the FML sometime back about someone who Heimlich'd their ferret, but I couldn't remember how. Then suddenly out came a peice of carrot - don't ask me where she got it from. My So took her and tried to Heimlich'd her a little to see if anything else would come out, but she seemed okay. She wasn't struggling to get down like usual so we were kind of worried and sat there watching her for about 10 more minutes. She just seemed tired and unhappy. By the morning she was back to her perky diabolical self, but boy what a scare. Also, I am beginning to wonder if soap could have caused the one bald spot on Jitterbug's back. I have caught her now several times climbing into the bathtub and licking the soap. So maybe she isn't adrenal after all. I do want to thank all of you who have been giving me suggestions regarding the treatment of adrenal disease and I hope a vet will respond to my earlier post at some time (as I am not really sure it IS adrenal). Thanks again to everyone. Love and Dooks, Katlin [Posted in FML issue 1952]