Jack, my one-eyed darling has responded wonderfully to the sulfur medication and is slowly putting on weight. He can now eat a whole cube of duck soup in one sitting. He is not impressed with my constant smooching and gushing over him. I should drown him in the bucket of tears I've cried over him, the ingrate! I took in a fecal sample from his cage mate, Farrah, just to be on the safe side. She was eating fine, pooping fine, as playful as a 4 year old lady can be and has a beautiful soft coat. I was sure that she couldn't have contracted the coccidia given her health. Well I was right, she doesn't have coccidia - she was diagnosed with ROUND WORM. When I picked my jaw up off the floor and said excuse me! Round Worm - she isn't showing any symptoms of anything!!?? So, on my vet's (ferret wise) recommendation, all the ferrets in our home were treated for round worm. Fourteen little mouths to pop a crushed pill into to and another round of disinfecting litter boxes and you really don't want to know how many that ended up being as I have lots of community litter boxes out in the play areas. When I get strange looks at work, I tell them that they are smelling my new perfume "Au de Javex" Here's another question to all shelter operators, should I being automatically getting a fecal test done on all ferts coming into the shelter(doesn't always show up first time) and or putting all new shelter ferts on a parasite med period? It's not the cost I'm worried about, but the work involved to disinfect everything and treat current ferrets who have played in the same rooms even if they have had no direct contact. Before anyone wonders, as you will notice that I have posted twice (gasp) in one FML, I have not bitten (only my ferts do that, but I call it love nibbles) more than I can chew. My wonderful hubby helps out with feedings and cleaning or simply making meals while I'm down in the shelter room trying to convince my fear biter Mr. Beezley that I am one big ferret covered in ferretone, just wanting to play! Deb Zookeeper [Posted in FML issue 2427]