The park: Whilst feeding some raccoons in a local park today, a passer-by exclaimed "Hey, they look like ferrets!". Funny, I always thought ferrets looked like raccoons.... Deja: Deja is continuing to improve. We have gradually increased the percentage of Totally Ferret and have added a teaspoon of Nutri-cal to her daily diet of Science Diet Growth and Bil-Jac (a kitten chow using all meat protein and no freeze dried ingredients). Her level of activity has improved markedly, and China riles her up enough to even dook it out. The lump of fat by her stomach was nothing other than just fat, never-the-less she seems to be much more comfortable and hungry without it. A word of warning, this fat lump only appeared in one out of four x-rays of the same area and perspective.... >side bar: Pepto Bismo is "radio opaque" and can really make for some wierd x-rays. Litter tests: Independent laboratory tests (mine) showed the absorbency of a compressed recycled newspaper pellet litter to be significantly slower and less absorbent by volume when compared to a compressed pine pellet litter over a 24 hour period when using plain water (sorry, I couldn't get any of my ferrets to pee in the jar). >side bar: Elitist Latin cliche for the day: "de asini umbra disceptare" best wishes, until next time, alphachi [Posted in FML issue 2070]