From:
miamiferret
Date: 2002-04-07 04:23:00 UTC
Subject: Re: Why do ferrets twitch after being put to sleep?
I have had a few ferrets euthanized myself and fortunately, I have
never seen any twitching after death. I'm sure it's just the muscles
contracting on their own and nothing related to not being fully gone.
Like you, I've had quite a few dreams about them afterwards.
Usually, I'm trying to save them from some life-threatening thing...
drowning for instance, or they woke up sometime after the injection
and were just fine. I suppose those dreams are natural after a
traumatic event.
mike
--- In Ferret-Health-list@y..., "Ulrike Stanley" <ferretlove@n...>
wrote:
> I've had quite a few ferrets put to sleep now, some just drifted
away
> quietly, others twitched more or less.