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From: Pam Sessoms
Date: 2001-09-18 11:43:00 UTC
Subject: Re: [Ferret-Health-list] Back Injury Update

On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, jones wrote:
> Again I was wondering if anyone on the list has any experience with
> back injuries in ferrets or if they know of back surgery ever being
> done?

Kathleen,

I haven't personally heard of any of them having had surgery done, but
maybe someone else has?

I wrote a message a little while ago about my Mojo's back problem. But he
got over it without surgery - he had no compression, nothing visible on
radiographs, so his was a different kind of case. You wrote before that
you had one treated with dexamethasone, and I think Mojo's case was
probably handled similarly (with pred). The message about Mojo was FHL
post number 6908, viewable at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ferret-Health-list/message/6908

Please keep us posted!

-Pam S.