From:
damico@bellsouth.net
Date: 2002-07-17 15:00:14 UTC
Subject: RE: Chocolate Moose update
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <8097897.1026918014468.JavaMail.root@scandium>
Linda - I have had 14 ferrets, up to nine at a time, so I have had my share of meds to give. I hide most meds in a small amount of Duck Soup or Bob C. Chicken Gravy (1-2 tsp). So far, they all have scarfed it down - even Flagyl and Proglycem - no pain, no fuss, other than keeping the others out of the dish. Other owners have used cream. Of course, check with the vet first to be sure that the med can be given this way - some have to be given without food.
Author wrote:
> Hi, everybody.
> Chocolate Moose is feeling so much better now that he gets very upset and
> urinates whenever I give him his medicine, even if he gets Ferretone right
> before and right after taking it. I guess he figures he doesn't need to
> take it any more. I'm assuming there's not much I can do about this? It's
> only me here -- I can't have someone else help hang onto him so I just
> scruff him and try to talk nice to him (yeah, right, Mom) and make sure
> to get the medicine inside his little cheek pouch.
> His stools looked a lot better after being on antibiotics and Kaopectate,
> but he didn't have much energy until a week later when I added prednisolone.
> I'm assuming he has to be on all this medicine for at least 3-4 weeks?
> Thank you.
> Linda and Chocolate Moose (who is gaining back some weight and now jumps
> on his brother, Zipper, handily just like he did in the old days)