From:
phillip_tonya2000
Date: 2002-01-21 20:28:00 UTC
Subject: Need Advice
This post is about my ferret Gidget. About 1 month ago Gidget
stopped eating her dry food. I assumed it was because my other
ferret will only eat chicken soup, she tasted it, and liked it. She
has been on chicken soup since then.
Last week I noticed that one of their toys was missing some
feathers. 3 to be exact. I emptied everything in the room, looked
under and in everything and never found the feathers. About this
same time I noticed Gidget gagging or coughing. I started her on
ferretlax.
At this time she was still eating good and her poops where normal.
On Friday, Jan. 18 I noticed that her poops where very small and
thin, I called my vet asap, and they said to continue with the
ferretlax, and the fact that there was no vomit and she was eating
was a good sign.
The poops remained the same all weekend and she refused to eat this
morning. I took her to the vet this afternoon.
My vet felt a mass in her belly so they did xrays. There was no sign
of the feathers but there was a mass of some sort. My vet said that
he believed she had inflammtion in her bowels. He also said that its
mostly likely the reason she stopped eating dry food. He didn't want
to say for sure what it was, he said that its hard to tell and wants
me to call often with updates. He put her on amoxi drops, twice a
day, and told me to keep her on ferretlax. He also couldn't tell me
if my other ferret could get it.
A friend suggested I post about this, she has years of experience
with ferrets and thought I should ask the vets here, I hope someone
will respond to this message.
Thank you very much!
Tonya