Hello all, Thank you all once aagain for your E-Mails. Of course, with ECE I am still very busy. Hootie is now eating and drinking on his own. He is still taking amoxy 2x a day, but he is running and active again. Snoball is still kind of lethargic, and spending alot of time sleeping. I have been force feeding her through a syringe, but on the advice of Dr. Bruce Williams, I stopped that and tried starting her on pllain Gerber Chicken flavor baby food. I started this this morning. Though she is drinking on her own now, she still is not eating. The Chicken baby food was a success. She only ate about a teaspoon and a half, but she lapped that up like it was ferretone !! She loved it. Still would not eat it from the bowl, but she ate it from my finger with no proble. Here's the best part, I didn't need to syringe feed it to her !! Using Syringes adds one possiblility that I really did'nt like. They can very easily aspirate on some of the fluid, therby causing apiration pneumonia. That would definately complicate matters. For anyone interested, please check out Dr. Williams web pages on ferrets at http://www.afip.org/ferrets/ He has a page on feeding them when they won't eat, and pages on the disease pathology of many diseases, including ECE. His qualifications make him what I would definately call an Expert. And he has ferrets of his own also. I still have some of the "duck soup" that I made and will continue putting it in their cage, but for force feedings, I'm sticking with the Chicken baby food by itself. Snoball is eating it like a champ, and I mixed in the amoxy so I didn't have to use the dropper for it !! As to the pepto or imodium etc.... Dr. Williams told me that if the ferret isn't having profuse diarhea that is causing severe dehydration, stopping the diarhea can actually prolong the ferrets illness, because it does not allow the toxins to leave the body. As a former nurse, I know this to be true with humans, but it's something that has to be weighed against how much the ferret is actually losing to the diarhea. While Snoball is still displaying the profuse "Greenies", She is drinking and seems to be more active. Activity level is the first sign of dehydration, followed by skin turgor. (this can be checked for by pinching a tuft of skin up behind their neck, If it pops right back it is fine, If it remains "Tented" for a bit, then the skin is dehydrated.) So far , Skin turgor is fine, and their activity level is getting better. I'm sure I'll get through this OK. Thank you all for your well wishes and I will keep you all up to date on Snoball and Hooties progress. Oh, BTW, The new baby is doing great. No signs of any problems yet. Axe [Posted in FML issue 2640]