From:
Melissa
Date: 2001-11-16 08:36:00 UTC
Subject: Re: [Ferret-Health-list] Re: Can any one help? Smelly
ferret poop
Sorry to add to the numerous posts, but nobody has
mentioned this yet -- it might be proliferative bowel.
Back in April, I boarded my ferrets at a shelter for a
weekend, and, I guess from stress, the youngest (10
months, then) developed what my vet termed
"proliferative bowel." Symptoms consisted of watery
green stool with an extremely strong sulfur odor and
"crashing" 2 days after the potty problems started. I
mean that the ferret was eating fine in the AM, and by
the evening couldn't even move, wouldn't eat, and was
dehydrated. After an AM trip to the vet, sub-q
fluids, and a dose of chloramphenicol, ferret was much
improved and eating fairly normally. Apparently, this
is pretty common in young ferrets. The
chloramphenicol worked wonders! (although they had to
stay on it for like 2 weeks).
This passed from the youngest to the oldest (5, then),
who had identical symptoms, with onset about 4 days
after the young one. The middle ferret never really
got sick.
I just mention this as a possibility because the stool
odor was so incredibly strong that I could immediately
smell it whenever one of the sick ferrets went potty
anywhere in the house! I had never heard of something
like that before, but it might be a possibility for
you.
Best Wishes
Melissa
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