Message Number: YG659 | New FHL Archives Search
From: Mike Janke
Date: 2001-03-04 05:57:00 UTC
Subject: Re: Poop chart

The blood could be from the rectum. In my experience, prolapsed
rectums don't bleed simply because they are prolapsed. Minor bleeding
perhaps, if the ferret has dragged his/her butt on a rough surface,
injuring the exposed tissue.

Mike


--- In Ferret-Health-list@y..., steve austin <kazpat1@j...> wrote:
> Thanks Mike, I was just thinking since the first sign in her ferret
was
> the mucous then mucous with blood, could the blood be from the
rectum? I
> mean a prolapsed rectum due to another cause, and just not real
prolapsed
> yet-so it isn't seem without careful exam?? If that makes sense.