Having enforced rest today so just saw something on animal planet which may interest the folks who have the occasional ferret with megaespohagus. They had a spaniel with it on, and then did two sets of radiographs. The first set of x-rays was while eating a soft food mixed with barium to see how much was coming back into the esophagus, and the second was later to see how much was able to pass along properly. In the dog's case the amount coming back wasn't large and the progression was good, so even though the dog will eventually need a mercy shot the vets thought that help could be gotten *by having the dog eat in an upright position standing on hind legs so that the trunk was kept more vertical like in a biped*. Not having ever had this problem here I don't know if this has been tried in early megaesophagus in ferrets, but figured it might be worth mentioning for feed-back or consideration. [Posted in FML issue 2721]