With Martin's reaction to his annual distemper I got distracted from another question the vet brought up: She thinks the tartar on his teeth is excessive. She says she thought I was giving them wet food, not dry. Martin is one of my shelter ferrets, and I have no idea what he was fed the first year of his life. W/me he's gotten dry food only (he's 2 1/2 now). My question is: Has anyone ever had their ferrets' teeth cleaned? Is it worth it to put these little guys through a dental experience (more like horror, from what my parents' cat has gone through)? A couple comments about Linus, my 4 year old: I noticed a couple suggestions about training their ferrets to roll over--My ferret Linus does this on his own, when he gets all excited he'll stop, shake his head a couple times, roll over, jump up and shake his head again. It's very odd-looking and quite hilarious. When he's really going crazy he will actually move across the room, diagonally, in this manner. A couple times he has rolled himself right into the wall. He's not the smartest ferret I've ever encountered, and I can't get him to learn any tricks (except the litter box, which literally took me 1 1/2 yrs) so he won't do this on command. He will do it on his own if I rile him up though. Linus also whines when he plays with the other ferrets and also my roommates' kitten. He never ever looks like he's actually being hurt, but he whines anyway. He sounds just like a dog. He's as big as or bigger than all my ferrets, two of which are girls, but nonetheless...they start wrestling and immediately Linus starts whining. Does anyone else have a whiny ferret? Sometimes he even whines in his sleep... Minta [Posted in FML issue 2564]