This is an appeal to Kate Pappas and to all others who address the network about their ferrets suffering, especially Emmett who is a Ferrets NorthWest Frettchen, now some 7 years old and formerly named, GETSIL-ichi, one of the sons of GETAW-ni and SILPRIN-ichi. (I hope that's correct, from my Altzheimeristic memory?) We will all stand to benefit if the patient's would summarize the symptoms of their ferret's illness and then followup with the treatment for whatever disease is diagnosed by competent medical authority. Please, if you would folks, tell us what the doctor did to treat your ferret to recovery. What was diagnosed? Was the treatment effective, or did the ferret get better on its own, or did the ferret die? Some of you do this, and I think we are all very grateful. This medium is an excellent place to garner knowledge, especially if those of you who have knowledge to give ... will give it. We should always keep on learning from each other, if only to benefit the ferret. Besides, you as an individual are so very intensely interesting. Of course, those with diverse opinions are really welcome too, since reading the kooks (such as I) is always highly entertaining, especially when the kooks are flaming each other. Come on, come on, where are those torches, those flame throwers, especially the one I miss most of all, the Zen-Buddha man? Go! Man, Go! Edward Lipinski, Der Frettchenlustbarkeitsfuerher. [G.] Ferret frolics leader, from the land (and water) of Frettchenvergnuegen [G.] Ferret Satisfaction, as manifested by the one greatest house of ferret prostitution in the entire world. (We's got three vasectomized hobs who are so busy right now that the City of Mercer Island has dubbed our residence XXX ! Under 18 years of age, no admission allowed.) By the way, does anybody know Monica Lewinsky's phone number or email address? She'd look just awsome, kneeling with a pair of ferrets on her shoulders. It would give new meaning to the term "ferret legging," right? [Posted in FML issue 2252]