Now that Kato is back in the fold-(he's with best buddy, Casey) We took the traveling ferret show to the vet's. (There are only 7, but they said they'd never seen so many ferrets in one place at the same time! Must not get around much!) Anyway, Karat is 5 1/2 now, and has a slight discharge but no swelling like she used to get-and the doc says he's pretty sure he can feel lumps in her now. She'd have to go up to the vet school in Athens for a real workup and surgery. She acts just fine, only kind of toothless and slow. (Just joking-kind of saddened by the inevitability of all this!Trying to avoid thinking about it.) Karen [Posted in FML issue 1937]