health update: Belle and Tigger are doing much better and getting over their cold/infection. Tigger started eating Totally Ferret almost 3 weeks ago and Belle stopped eating her duck soup Friday night and I went into a panic. But she gained so much weight that skipping one meal wasn't going to worry me so much. Then no duck soup Saturday, or Sunday. Ok PANIC!!!!! But she still wasn't losing any weight and she was drinking water. Well we were in the bedroom having a talk and she ate some Totally Ferret out of my hand..HAPPY DAY!!!! Well then she took a big mouth full and ran to her private hidy-hole; then she came back and took 4 more mouth fulls. She had been eating TF since Friday, but hiding it so I didn't know. At our last trip at the vet we got blood from her and her liver levels were normal. Last year they were really bad and the old vet gave me the impression that she would have liver problems for the rest of her life. Not true. So now Belle is all healthy and so is Tigger. The vet did say that her sugar level was in the low normal but it is still normal and she is not worried about it. Thank goodness, I can't take the stress anymore. So now they are playing with each other and having a good time. They go to the vet next week for follow-up and distemper shots. unsupervised freedom: I leave my ferrets out all of the time. Their cage is open and they go in everyday for a while. Even though they spend most of their time in their bed in our bedroom. I have a big fluffy dog bed with sleep sacks and shirts and a travel bag for them to crawl into. Our dinning room is their play room with their cage, ferret freeway/clear tube, hard clear tubes with balls attached to them all over the place and another big travel spaceship shaped case in the living room along with their toy and sand box. They have litter boxes, food and water in several places and they like it very much. But I wonder sometimes if it is best because they are not dookers'. They will play and have a good time among themselves but I don't know how long they play while I am at work and I don't know if the amount of time that they play while I am there is enough. They will get up at 5:45 A.M. every morning and play in the dinning room and they will play at night. I am concerned some about how happy they are as in my attached post "Am I a good parent". I do know that when we got Belle she was in her cage all day, then we left her out after awhile, then we went to my mom's and she was in a small room, she was very depressed, got Tigger, 9 month transition for these guys, when we got our house and they had free roam, they were totally different, so happy. We fixed all the dangers so I saw no reason to keep them in their cage. They sleep alot so if anyone knows why this is bad I would be interested in reading about it. Best wishes to for great health and great fun.....Anna, Belle & Tigger My prayers are with all of those who have lost their loved ones. Belle: "Mom, don't be getting no ideas about closing that cage door with me in it" Tigger: "Mommy, I love you, I love you, I love you!" Belle: "Ok Tigger, I've seen that look in her eye before she is thinking about closing the door" Tigger & Belle: "OK, OK, you can play with us" [Posted in FML issue 2495]