Message Number: SG551 | New FHL Archives Search
From: mjanke@miamiferret.org
Date: 2002-07-30 12:45:57 UTC
Subject: RE: my ferret is loosing fur! adrenal disease?
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <26824236.1028033157735.JavaMail.root@scandium>

This type of hair loss is not caused by normal shedding. It does sound like it may be adrenal related.

By the way, ferrets aren't induced to shed their winter coat by hot temperatures. It's the length of daylight that signals the right time to grow their winter coat or shed it. It just so happens that longer days bring higher temperatures, but the shed is not temperature related.

mike

Author wrote:
> my ferret salty ,he's a sable, has lost fur on most of the front of his
> neck and is starting to loose fur on his tale and tiny bit by his paws.
> i dont know of he is sheding it because of the hot climat.its normaly about
> 30-35c .