From:
Diana Ashton
Date: 2001-10-26 04:40:00 UTC
Subject: persistent diarrhea
I have 2 older male ferrets. They have had chronic diarrhea
for a long time now. We had stool samples run several months
ago and they both came back positive for clostridium. We
treated them with amoxy but 3 weeks later thay still had
diarrhea. Took another stool sample and one was positive and
one negative. We changed to Batril and did that for about 4
weeks with no change. We ran another stool sample for both of
them yesterday and it was negative. Ringo is 8 years old and
insulinomic. He is up to 1 ml of pred 2X a day. He had been on
pred for over a year now. Snoopy has no health issuesthat we
are aware of. I had to seperate these 2 old gentlemen because
it was impossible to keep them clean with them both in the
same cage. Is there something else that I can try? Alll the
vets at the clinic that I use are stumped. Sometimes Ringo
does not even make it out of his sleeping box when he has to
go potty.
Diana and The Ferret Farm