From:
Flemming Farms
Date: 2002-01-28 11:53:00 UTC
Subject: Emphysema
This may sound strange, but . . .
I know of a woman that has recently had a ferret put down. He was coughing
hoarsely. He was put on all sorts of antibiotics as they were sure he had
bacterial pneumonia. They did an x-ray of his lungs. They were hideous.
The vet commented that they looked like the lungs of a human with emphysema.
His breathing became more laboured. She tried all sorts of different
things, but found the most humane thing to do was to put him down. He was
three years old. She had a full PM done on him. Upon opening the lungs,
the vet said the ferret had emphysema. The owner is a smoker. Has anybody
else seen this?
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