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From: Hettinger Jennifer
Date: 2002-02-04 11:03:00 UTC
Subject: Does my vet know about ferrets

I have a vet I have been taking my 5 ferrets to for the last two
years I thought until recently he was quite good with ferrets.
Recently I have become concerned he doesn't really know that much
about ferrets, he says he sees a lot of ferrets, but I guess that
doesn't mean he knows a lot about them. Are there any questions I
can ask my vet that would let me know for sure if he knows what he
is doing? I don't want to find out to late that he is not doing
what is best for our babies. Here are my general reasons for
concern. Iike I said I have 5 ferrets three boys Bashor 3 Koda 3
1/2 Taz 4 1/2 and two girls Yin 3 and Washu 4 1/2. Until recently we
have been very lucky no real illnesses of any kind. Washu had
sympotms of adrenal tumors our vet suggested we bring her in weekly
to keep an eye on her. we thought this was a great idea that way she
would be having unnessary surgery when Washu started to lose weight
he advised we have the surgery done so we did that after the
surgery her symptoms never went away and 2 mo later she had another
surgery to remove the other adrenal gland about two weeks after her
surgery all her symptoms were gone its now 7mo later and all her
symptoms have returned she smells bad, (not a normal smell for a
ferret at all you smell her when you open the door to our house) her
vulva is swollen and has a discharge (kinda yellowish)she is loosing
weight again This time the vet thought she may just have a bladder
infection so we tried antibotics for 3 weeks nothing changed so he
thinks he should go back in and take a look where her adrenal glands
were. in the mean time we started looking on the internet and found
out some things that gave us cause to be concerened we have read
that if our vet had removed both adrenal glands (like he said he
did) that he should have told us she needed hormone replacement
drugs he never mentioned it. we have also read things about a drug
called Lupron I have given him the info we found on it and he said
he had never heard of it so he is checking with some other vets he
knows should we be concerned about our vet or is he doing what is
common?
Thank you in advance for any advise I can get
Jennifer JchProcess@yahoo.com



Jennfer Hettinger
JchProcess@yahoo.com





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