From:
Steve Austin
Date: 2001-05-17 23:11:00 UTC
Subject: Re: [Ferret-Health-list] repeated passing of blood
> > > sure
> > >
> Amber Baker,
South
Carolina
> ____________________________
Sorry to hear about your boy. Maybe there is a shelter near
you, or
in Georgia that knows of a vet. You could start by going to
www.ferretcentral.org and looking at their list of shelters,
it isn't complete, but I think you could contact a shelter
closest to you and they may have a list of others.
( I just checked and the only one I found was on STAR's
list, so it seems South carolina needs shelters)
Here is the one contact I did find
LOS,SC /REBEL FERRET RESCUE- look for the
contact info here :
http://www.ferretcentral.org/for-others/database.html
Also, I asked on the FML once and got a lot of people
e-mailing me with
vet recommendations for my area- you may try to post there if
you are a
member. The male that seems to definitely have it needs the
exploratory
and adrenal tumor removed. You could ask about
the shot of Lupron to buy time while you find a vet who can
do
the surgery. The female- I have some doubts, but if it is
early
adrenal it can wait a bit. My male that had adrenal
actually had a
very coarse coat, and he was like that since I got him, so I
figured
it was his coat. About a month after the adrenal surgery he
has a
nice soft coat, like the other
ferrets I have. So, I always thought the rougher coats were
more
likely adrenal, not the soft ones,
but there may be no correlations- because I have heard both
reported by owners.
Patty