Message Number: YG5331 | New FHL Archives Search
From: Sukie Crandall
Date: 2001-07-10 16:12:00 UTC
Subject: Re: Watery stools

>We did have a new ferret join the family recently. The female with
>the watery stools and her sister are also newly acquired ferrets. We
>got them from a woman in NJ about 2 months ago. The new ferret is a
>PV ferret bought from a pet store about 3 weeks ago. She was fine up
>until a couple of days ago. She hasn't gone outside, no food
>changes, and no health problems we are aware of. I have not taken
>her to the vet yet.

You may be dealing with a contagion like ECE, or with a transmitted
parasite. You can learn a lot about these from

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ferret-Health-list

http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc

http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html (single best site to learn about ECE)

http://www.trifl.org/medical.html

http://www.ferretcentral.org