Dear reader, I have a very pressing question. I have a very ill ferret. I know he is not long for this world anymore, he has cardiovascular myopathy and prognosis is poor. I am lucky, I quess, since we managed to pull him back from deaths doorstep about four times in the last nine months. The lucky part beeing that he not only survived, but actually enjoyed beeing alive, sharing his bed with two of his children, playing, and when tired sleep in between me and my husband, who for your information is not at all fond of ferrets. According to him they smell, bite and are allways under your feet. As early as the first symtoms of his very progressive disease he has been showing some strange behaviour that I can't help but feel that it may have something to do with his condition. He drinks his own urine. Not that of the others, only his own. Is there anybody out there who has had the same behaviour with their ferrets and under the same conditions? has anybody done research about this fenomenon? Please let me know. He's getting much worse and I know that he cannot live on much longer under the present conditions. Just to see him for a couple more weeks under improved conditions would be a blessing. Thank you in advance Kind regards Evelien Gilbert [Posted in FML issue 2833]