Message Number: SG2383 | New FHL Archives Search
From: Ferrethealer@aol.com
Date: 2002-11-27 04:21:26 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] Digest 27 Nov 2002 04:01:09 -0000 Issue 158
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <68.2942e6db.2b15a246@aol.com>

In a message dated 11/26/02 11:01:50 PM Eastern Standard Time,
ferrethealth-digest-help@smartgroups.com writes:

> But guys... he is
> TWO. It's not possible to have adrenal problems at two is it? Tell me its
> not. Please?
> He has no off odor, no behavioral changes, no licking, no other signs
> or
> symptoms at all. Is it possible this is due to something else?
>
>
Unfortunately, it is all too possible to have adrenal disease at two years
old. I have seen it in ferrets under a year old. The youngest I've seen it
in was nine months, but there are reports of six month old ferrets with
adrenal disease. Sounds like adrenal hair loss to me, I'm afraid.

Dr. Ruth
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