From:
Bonny
Date: 2001-11-28 13:01:00 UTC
Subject: Hair and weight loss
Hi,
I left for a week to go see family and left my two ferrets
with my husband while I was gone. He has been rather busy with
work but has made time to spend with the ferrets most days.
Well, when I got home, I noticed my boy, Taffy, has lost a
tremendous amount of weight and is shedding hair as well. He
is less than a year old and still as active as before. Only
difference now is that I brought back another ferret with me
so he keeps Taffy even more active than before.
I have been giving Taffy one to two jars of gerbers chicken
mixed with a tablespoon of ensure every day for the past three
days now. He likes it a lot and seems to look forward to it
now, but I haven't noticed him eating or drinking much on his
own. When I fed him water through a syringe last night, he was
eager and happy to drink it.
He's a big time Mama's boy and my husband said he got very
depressed when I left and moped around looking for me to come
back. When I did come back, he wouldn't let me out of site for
one moment. I have been trying to spend as much time with him
one on one as I can. He's still shedding hair, but he seems to
be changing colors a bit so I'm hoping this may be his winter
coat coming in or something? I am preparing to make a vet
appointment soon if he doesn't start eating on his own, but I
would really like to get some opinions from others first. I
appreciate your help.
Sincerely, Bonny