From:
Karen Kerns
Date: 2001-11-04 15:04:00 UTC
Subject: [Ferret-Health-list] Re: help.. what are warning
of blockage?
Thank you for the information!!!
I just gave everyone a dose of Laxatone. Lucky for me, if is
a favorite treat for all three of them,. so no one complained
about having to eat it. I am going to keep them in their cage
where I can moniter them better, and will be keeping a close
eye on them all night and tomorrow.
Thank you again.. I am so worred and am grateful you took the
time to help me out.
Karen
----- Original Message -----
From: sukiecrandall@telocity.com
To: Ferret-Health-list@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2001 10:45 PM
signs of blockage?
Inability to eat, inability to drink, vomiting, not passing
stools,
passing very thin stools, evidence of stomach pain (such as
tooth grinding or pawing at the mouth), runs are all things
that
can occur.
Tonight pull out your ferret/cat laxative or some petroleum
jelly
and give that to try to help it pass.
If there is a blockage it is important to get rapid medical
care
since they can become life-threatening very fast, so if you
do not
see enough eraser out tomorrow, or ferret is showing
symptoms
like those above, or is lethargic, or otherwise not well get
an
emergency appointment tomorrow.
The easiest ways to sample the stool with something like an
eraser is often either in water, or by squishing it around
in a
plastic bag.
Best of luck to you. Ashoing just decided to eat a chunk of
a
sweater of Steve's today so we are also on poop-watch here.
--- In Ferret-Health-list@y..., "Karen Kerns"
wrote:
> My roommate dropped one of his artist erasers in the
ferret
room and never mentoned in to me.. I foudn it half chewed on
under the couch today, and there were big chucks or eraser
in
some of the stool in the cage... What should I do? What
kind of
things to I need to look for to make sure my babies are o.k?
I
just discovered this a fe minutes ago and now I am frantic.
Please advise!!!
>
>
> Karen
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