Hi Everyone, This is Victoria again. Pasha and Yoshi's Mom and also Mom to 5 cats and 6 GPS and two rabbits!!!!!! Thanks for everyone who wrote to me about Pasha's Low energy. They both had a vet appointment with the "new" vet. The vet had a wonderful manner in handling them, he obviously loves animals and has experience with ferrets. One of the only ones in this area I might add. My one concern during the whole visit was he ask me how often I was bathing them and I told him once a month. He recommends every week to diminish smell!!!!! My angels smell wonderful to me. I told him that I did not think it was good to wash them so often. He let it drop. About Pasha. He said that both Pasha and Yoshi appeared to be in good health and were obviously well cared for and happy ferrets. He was very impressed that they are not hand shy or nippy. I felt good about that especially since we had such a hard time with Yoshi biting us and making us bleed the first two weeks we had her. She is a perfect little lady now! They did both have ear mites which I had suspected and they were treated and I have medicene to put in their ears once a week for a month. I am taking them both in after to holidays for blood tests. I want to make sure there isn't some hidden problem in my Pasha so if there is we can nip it in the bud so to speak. My question is another Pasha question. Pasha is an extremely picky eater. I worry so about this. I mix three kinds of kibble, Marshalls, TF, and Iams. Neither one of my ferrets will eat raisins but both will absolutely kill to get a yogurt or milk or honey drop. They are getting one or two a day. Some days I can't get my Pasha to eat. He acts like he is hunting something that will taste good but he won't eat. I have tried chicken, Turkey, beef jerky, canned ferret food, craisins, raisins, cheese, cherrios and more. When I do see him eat he seems to favor Marshalls and he loves whole cream but the two times I gave it to him he had awful diarhea! My walls were a mess behid his cage. Does anyone else out there have a picky eater and if so what did you do? Pasha will also not take Petromalt or any fur ball remedy. He loves Ferretone and at first he ate raisins and two times he took petromalt but now he won't take a rasin or petromalt!!!!! What can I do about a hairball remedy? Pasha looks healthy, he is not losing weight, his fur is very nice, he has normal poops so maybe he just doesn't need to eat as much. I don't know. This along with his low energy keeps me in a state of anxiety. I am a stay at home critter mom. I work part time at a home office so I am with my critters a lot. I have never worried like I have with Pash. I read about all the health problems these little fuzz butt angels have and it scares me. I just want to do all the right things and be the best I can be for them. My heart aches for all the fur moms that have lost their little treasures. Merry Christmas and Hugs and fert Kisses to all! Victoria [Posted in FML issue 2527]