My ferret loves cheese and milk (or any sort of cereal soaked in milk). I am aware that this can cause "the runs" in many animals, so we give it to her only in small quanitities as a treat, and not every day, and we watch her droppings to make sure they stay solid, or she doesn't get any for quite a while (she gets mad at this :). She is about 3 years old, and has had no problems due to this. In fact, we recently changed her food (the old was temporarily unavailable), and she got constipated. Our solution? We gave her about 2 teaspoons of milk...she loved it, and the next day she was fine. Now, I don't recommend this solution to all problems, but we knew what had caused the problem, and my husband was with her all night and all morning the next day to make sure everything was OK. So, I think, like people, animals have different reactions to foods, and although many are probably "lactose-intolerant", those of us who do feed dairy products to our fuzzies are not necessarily bad parents, or doing something unhealthy for them. Debbie Pixie "But, mommie, I *love* milk!" [Posted in FML issue 2124]