From:
miamiferret
Date: 2002-03-07 23:07:00 UTC
Subject: Re: NEED HELP WITH FEEDING!!!!!!
If he's vomiting his food right away, it isn't because he doesn't
like it. There's a real problem there. Ferrets don't vomit very
often and if they do it more than once, I think of two
possibilities. A blockage and something that has been seen in a few
ferrets lately, megaesophagus. With megaesophagus, the food is
quickly regurgitated and everyone I've talked to describes a sound
like water going down a drain or a toilet when they feed a ferret
with this condition. This condition can probably be seen with an x-
ray.
I'd stick with plain old chicken baby food, fed frequent small meals,
rather than trying to get him to eat a lot at one time, to see if
he'll keep it down... and get him into a vet first thing tomorrow.
If a good exam and an x-ray don't reveal anything (and it usually
won't when it comes to a blockage), and his condition isn't
improving, it might be wise to do exploratory now to see what's going
on before he goes too far downhill.
mike
--- In Ferret-Health-list@y..., "nrsl_cartridge"
<nrsl_cartridge@y...> wrote:
> hello i posted last night about Kramer and the problems that i am
> having with him but now he is refusing to eat anything for me i`ve
> tried duck soup and even tried to mix nutra-cal with it but no
luck,
> i have also tried 3 of the recipes on ferret central with no luck,
i
> get 1-2 bites in him and he hurles it up, is there something else
> that i can try to mix together for him????