So, let's see: we had two chocolates mellow mentions, two chocolates excitable mentions, one mitts mellow mention, one mitts excitable mention, one black sables excitable mention, hmmmm... Carob is greatly enjoyed by our dashing furballs. The ferret having vision problems sounds like 'Chopper the Organic Helicopter when she first had protein accumulate in her lenses. She learned to live around it quite easily, began to pay more attention to what we were saying -- rather neat for a ferret who was always partly deaf (high pitched sounds), and went on to live to be elderly before hypertrophic cardiomyopathy finally took her. If it's protein the ferret's eyes will later look a little touch cloudy eventually but vision will be gone before that. [Posted in FML issue 2500]