Hi ferret lovers: I am also the woman with the unspayed female story in todays newsletter. I just wanted to share this little story with u also. My oldest white baby, started to throw up her food, and the next day, she stopped eating. By the 3rd day she wasnt moving her bowls, and not taking water . It was very hot and at first i thought it was the heat. By the 4th day she was listless. I was very upset by this point. I made an appt with the vet and took her in. He took xrays and said he wasnt sure but might be a blockage, even though he couldnt see it on the xrays. Well, im not a vet and i could see it on xrays. He began to tell me how ferrets dont hold up to operations well. HA HA HA HA. I read here all the time and know, it was more like, he didnt want to do the operation. I called another vet the next day. I was sick at heart, i was think ing where i could borrow about 800 dollars for the operation. I couldnot let my baby die,but was comming up about $600 dollars short of the money i figured i might need. By now my baby was not even getting up, and sleeping all the time. In bad shape. We ran to the new vet. She put my listless baby on table and palpated her stomach so hard that my baby woke up and jumped in the air and fell on the floor. She said she thought she felt something in there, she took xrays and we waited for her to read them, well 20 minutes later, the vets helper came in and said the xrays were not good and they needed to take another. When i went in the cage to get Angel, i saw this slimmy pile of mucas poop in the corner. I just started to scream, "She pooped, she pooped". The people in the office must have thought i was nuts. The vet came running in and put on gloves and checked the poop. There it was, the BLOCKAGE had passed. I was so happy i was jumping around. Anyway, the thing that my Angel ate was the stopper that is inside the dryer door to prevent it from slamming shut. It is about the size of an asperin, and she must have chewed it off and swallowed it. When iIbath my ferrets , I put a couple towels in the dryer and tumble them around to warm them up, then let the wet ferrets go in the dryer to dry themselves on the hot towels. When the vet was palpating Angels stomach so hard, she must have dislodged it. The vet had already written up the estimate for the operation, it was over 800 dollars. Boy, this was good luck. Well, good fortune to all the fuzzies out there. Sharon ahd her babies= Angel and Baby [Posted in FML issue 2787]