Poor women, she needed your help. A b**ch of a job, but some one had to do it; and just in case you need to know, this is how to do the Heimlich manoeuvre on a choking ferret http://www.ferrets.org/First_Aid_Info.htm#HeimlichManoeuvre Tom am I hallucinating or was there, oh so very briefly another, very important post, that you have now taken down?