Hi everyone. This is the first time I post. My girlfriend and I had a fiasco the other day when we found out that our two ferrets ate six or so oreos (actually they were Famous Amos' oreo-like cookies) from our cookie box. She thought I ate them, I thought she ate them, and we found out they ate them after we picked up three oreos behind the couch. My girlfriend then noticed that one of our ferrets was doing this hacking action, but not exactly "hacking." We fed her lots of water and ferretvite, hoping that she would digest whatever she was having trouble with. Her tummy is huge for two days now, and she's usually the hyperactive type but she's been really lazy and has been a baby to my girlfriend - which worries us. She sleeps a lot, which we're assuming is good. Otherwise, she eats well, drinks well, sleeps well. She poops a tiny amount, though. The other one we think is fine. Her tummy is slim and normal, eats well, poops well and plays well. What worries us is what my girlfriend read somewhere a while ago about chocolate not being good for ferrets and that they can even die? She looks fine to us, but she's still only four months old and we're a bit worried. My girlfriend's been down with a flu so I haven't been able to take the ferrets to the vet. Hopefully we can take them tomorrow. Until we get some positive feedback, we've got one girl sick and one ferret acting sick, so please tell me if you know anyting about ferrets eating oreos. Thanks in advance. JT [Posted in FML issue 2583]