Hi Kelly; If your fert is chewing styrofoam peanuts, you don't want to give him kaopectate to stop loose poops, you want to give him something like flax seed oil, or even cooking oil to help pass the potential blockage!! Elsewise, you can be looking at surgery to clear the blockage so he doesn't die! Take care, Gary & the gang of fur Timmy's web site=<http://www.concentric.net/~Gferret/>; He's the ferret totally healed from "terminal lymphoma" without drugs.:) AOL instant messenger name= garyferret :)/ ICQ#4461104 [Posted in FML issue 2222]