Regarding numerous posts on ferrets who seems to be wasting away from a lack of energy, but has no identifiable illness.... My answer of Timmy's story and treatment is too long for the FML, but email me for a copy. Breifly, Timmy is the first ferret lab diagnosed & "confirmed" as having "terminal lymphoma, prognosis poor, treatment of no avail", in the words of the lab report, and has since experienced a complete recovery & absence of all symptoms:) The diagnosing vet was Dr. Susan Brown of Illinois, one of the most respected and published in the business. I'm humbly happy to report that over 2.5 years after the diagnosis, he is alive, well & full of energy & dooks:) Last fall two different vets in two different states examined him & reported that "he looks like he was never sick a day in his life". The "alternative" methods that were used were the result of about 2000 hours of research I did when my brother was suffering from leukemia. Unfortunately, my brother died from the AMA type medicines, as he was locked into that belief system. A friend told me that "Timmy wasn't locked into a particular belief system, so that's part of why he is alive & well today. Timmy's picture and story is on his own web page,<http://ferretworld.com/Docs/timmy.html>, and this spring it was published in the book "Super Nutrition for Animals". (The web page does not have the current version of the recipe, though, but email me & I'll send the latest). I've been giving away the information & granting the "rights" to publish his story & recipe, without any cost or royalties, with the intent that it help as many ferrets as possible. As I hear back from people that they are experiencing good results, I can only be humbly grateful that a lot of good is coming out of the 5 months of suffering that he went thru. I know a number of new people get the impression that ferrets are sick a lot from reading this list, but over all that is not true, it's just that a lot of people here have a lot of helpful experience & are willing to share it with someone in need. I think that's pretty neat with all the "bad news" stories on TV, etc. Sincerely, Gary & the gang of fur -> Thru joining, their grief has been transmuted to joy, loneliness to celebration... ..Data, in "The Tin Man" episode, STNG. [Posted in FML issue 1956]