Hello everyone! Just wanted to respond to some posts on today's FML. Unfortunately, I'm accessing my home e-mail via the Internet at work, and for some reason I can only read about half of the FML. Anyway..... To the anonymous poster in CA who had the cat from the shelter with an upper-respiratory infection. We brought a kitten home from a pet store (was a trade for a very agressive black-belt cichlid fish), who turned out to be quite sick. She was infested with fur mites (which cost me several days of unbearable itching), and could not digest any food other than lactose-"free" milk - anything she ate turned to diarrhea almost immediately. The vet suggested I keep her isolated from the other animals (2 other cats and 5 ferrets) for *two weeks*. There was no way I could do this. The only place would have been in the bathroom, and at the time I had a cat with feluke (Feline Leukemia) who followed me like a puppy. I wasn't taking any chances on him catching anything - not my little sweetheart. Kudos to you for going through with what you did. I ended up taking the kitten back to the store. I couldn't have handled taking care of 3 sick cats and 5 sick ferrets. (BTW, trust me - you've never seen a cat refuse to take a pill until you've seen us trying to medicate Dakota!) To Leigh regarding the ear mites....Our ferrets came down with ear mites too, back when we got the last two (all 5 have since crossed the bridge). When I took them to the vet, he gave them a shot to clear the mites. I'm not sure what the medication was, but if anyone would like to know, please e-mail me and I'll see if I can....ferret it out! Michel [Posted in FML issue 2754]