Message Number: YG7167 | New FHL Archives Search
From: shurcool@infi.net
Date: 2001-09-10 09:53:00 UTC
Subject: Re: Segregation of ADV (+ )vs( - ) fererts

--- In Ferret-Health-list@y..., Julie Fossa <julie_fossa@y...> wrote:
>As for my (+) and (-) personal ferrets, I have made no
>real effort to segregate them other than to cage them
>separately........
>I don't know what the future will bring, but I do test
>upon surrender, and upon adoption. (many have been
>tested up to 4 times, already!) No positive will be
>adopted unless it is to an already ADV+ home

Does this mean that, if your ferrets have already been exposed but
still test negative, that it's OK to put a ADV+ ferret with them?
Once they have been exposed, they can't get ADV from a future ferret?

I can't seem to ask the question right, but maybe someone will
understand it.

Katharine