Hello My vet faxed me these results this morning: Description of fluid Blood stained fluid Red cells 1,260,000 /ul<1 Nucleated cells 8,900 /ul Specific gravity 1.020 Protein (Fluid) 20 g/l The pathology peaople said it looks like the liver, either trauma, tissue inflammation, cancer, hepatic disease or heart disease. My vet went through the blood test results with me again and said it's unlikely to be an inflammation because the white blood cell counts are normal and they would be up with an inflammation. And Angel would be lethargic if she had an infection. He even said that it's likely to be the heart but I said she would be ill if it was the heart because wouldn't it be in the last stages when the ascites starts? So we decided to put her on diuretics (sp?) to get rid of the ascites and then see how she is. The medicine is called Feusannai 20 mg but it's not clearly written so I'm not sure. I have to give her 1/8 th of a tablet morning and night. We also did another scan today and the vet who did the scan said he could see something on the liver, some growths though he wasn't 100% sure and told Mr Batten that it must be the liver and not the heart, he had a really long, good look and I didn't understand all they talked about but it looks like some form of surgery is the next step. So that's all I can say, hope somebody can help us a little. Ulrike and kids -- http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~ferret/ [Posted in FML issue 2337]