From:
Mike Janke
Date: 2001-11-15 06:56:00 UTC
Subject: Re: Phantom Pregnancy Weight Gain
Oh my goodness, she is fat! She would have made Beasley look
absolutely slim and I though he was terribly overweight. I know that
thyroid problems are extremely rare in ferrets, but we did have on in
the shelter that looked like this and was hypothyroid. Angela could
tell you all about Sammy. If my memory serves me well, I believe
another one in the shelter also developed a thyroid problem.
Anyway, if you're willing to pop for a blood test and check T4
levels, maybe this will either answer the question or not. I don't
see how this would be related to being in season and then brought out
of it, but perhaps that's just a coincidence. Again, this is
extremely rare but one possibility.
mike
--- In Ferret-Health-list@y..., "Shirley Hewett" <smhewett@b...>
wrote:
> I sent the following on the 8th November but it appears not to have
gone through, so I'm sending it again; this time with an attached pic
of my little blimp even though it does not quite capture her extreme
obesity.