Potpie is doing better; the incidence of funky-looking poops is going way down, her activity level is going up (I always know she's in a good mood when she bugs me incessantly - equivalent to a kid going, "Mom! Mom? Mom? Mom? Mooooom! Hey, Mom! MOM!!!"), and she's not nearly as sleepy as she has been. To recap: Symptoms: Funny stool- - Loose, light-colored - often looks 'undigested' - just crunched up and then it slides right through, comes out loose & unformed - pure mucus stool, yellowish, with yellow globs - Sticky stool with dark green Activity level down; she'd come out of the cage and go right back to sleep. Difficult to wake up. Eat, drink normal, minor weight loss, minor dehydration, but normal winter coat coming in fine. Symptoms present for 3-4 weeks. Puzzled the vet. Fecal and CBC showed nothing obvious (parasites, signs of infection). Blockage unlikely. We started giving her small amounts of Prozyme under the assumption that it was a pancreatic disorder. Whatever it was, the Prozyme seemed to give Potpie the 'leg up' that ferrets sometimes need, and she started coming around - more normal-looking stool, a bit more chipper. Btw, the Prozyme at the 1/8 tsp dose made her throw up violently and pass watery diarrhea. Easel has been perfectly healthy (and fat). Yesterday, I found her scratching her back by rolling around in the litterbox on the wood stove pellets. For like, 20 minutes. Snort. She looks a lot like a bottom-heavy seal when she's lying on her back. I am weaning Friday slowly off pred - you may remember she was diagnosed as having lympho based on lung congestion and badly swollen nodes; also, unseen but suspected tumor pressing on her spine and paralyzing her back end. This started last February; now I'm maintaining her on .1cc every other day. They're all on a primarily TF diet, and Friday's currently starting to look like a little orange polar bear (with demonic red eyes, of course). Noodle is coughing less and less, has put on nearly a pound since his ulcer this summer, has a gorgeous winter coat, and appears pretty darn healthy. Does anyone know what children's Triaminic dose is appropriate for ferrets? Just a side note - if you have a ferret that's prone to being sulky and gets depressed/mad at you when you leave on vacation, don't send them away to a new ferret sitter's for a week, especially if that new ferret sitter has an aggressive, territorial ferret who doesn't like your mopey ferret all that much. :) That much stress results in wacked-out health problems in your delicately-temperamented fuzzbutt. (Catherine: the dogs will get along better than Mithy and Noodle did :). Melissa __ Melissa Litwicki ____ [log in to unmask] __ By the whole newsgroup devoted tennis showing it after scarfing fork and laughters [Posted in FML issue 2124]