My ferretgirl (an only child) Felicia and I just got back from the vet and I have a medical question, if anyone has any ideas. Since Felicia has seemed to perk up in energy during these summer months, we've been letting her free-roam most of the time for the past few months. She's been very healthy and energetic, has been very playful, and is awake every few hours during both the day and night, playing, exploring, lick lick lick CHOMPing behind my knees at 3 a.m, etc. Yesterday I noticed that she spent most of her day sleeping in a pair of my sweatpants in my bedroom. Yesterday evening I went on my regular "evening rounds" to clean up her poop from the day, but I couldn't find ANY. I put her in her cage for the night so that I could monitor her water and food intake and litterbox usage. By this morning, she had drunk a little bit of water, but had eaten hardly anything and there was still no poop. When I let her out of the cage, she backed into four different corners within 10 minutes and seemed to try to poop but nothing happened. She then crawled into my sweatpants and went right back to sleep. I rushed her to my vet right away and told her that I thought Felicia might have an intestinal blockage. My vet took her temperature, and lo and behold, when she took the thermometer out of Felicia's rear, Felicia pooped a little. My vet said that the poop looked normal and that there didn't appear to be a blockage, but that Felicia had a temperature of 105 and probably has a cold or flu. I just gave her the first dose of her antibiotics (she took it like a good girl) and tucked her into a warm blanket in her cage, where she fell asleep right away. I'm keeping an eye on her food and water intake and the vet gave me a version of duck soup and a syringe in case she won't eat her kibble. ***But when we first got home from the vet's, the first thing she did was back into a corner, try to poop, and again, NOTHING HAPPENED. Does anyone have any ideas as to why she's doing this and why nothing happens?*** I'm worried about my baby. For a little furball who weighs 2 lbs, she has about 2 tons worth of love and charm in her. Thanks for any advice or insights! I'm a wreck :-o My friends think I'm weird, but I actually like picking up her poop because it tells me she's eating well :-) Helen [Posted in FML issue 2716]