From:
Megan Mohrbacher
Date: 2001-06-05 10:39:00 UTC
Subject: Re: [Ferret-Health-list] Digest Number 223
--- In Ferret-Health-list@y..., "Holender, David" <HolDav@t...> wrote:
> Salutations,
>
> Can anyone tell me how many beats per minute a ferrets heart
beats? I had
> an SND (sleeping not dead) incident last night and although the
little
> fellow was in a deep slumber, when I put my ear to his chest, his
heart was
> still beating pretty fast. So how fast? Curious minds want to
know!
>
I looked it up in the Ferrets For Dummies Book and it says that the average heart rate is 200 and for a healthy fuzzy the heart rate is 215 to 260. It also states that if a ferrets heart rate is exceeding 300 beats per minute it could be possible that it has cardiomyopathy. Just thought I would share what it said.
Thanks,
Megan
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/