From:
info@ferret.ru
Date: 2002-05-06 08:46:00 UTC
Subject: pruritic hairless patches
My friend Victoria keep ferret Bloom and he has pruritic
hairless patches on left cheek.
From anamnesis: Bloom, pastel altered male, 1.5 years old. He
was bought one mounth ago in Petshop. Ferret lived there
during 6 week in very bad conditions: small cage with sawdust
litter, no litterbox; low-quality food (faulty dry food for
dogs + scraps of dinner). He had a very strong smell. But his
coat was with relatively good condition.
Victoria bought his at 26 March. After 3 days, 29 March, Bloom
was kastrated. Soon he was vaccinied with "Hexadog" vaccine.
Victoria feed his by next scheme: 60% meat (chicken, beef,
veal and other), 40% groats, vegetables, a little fruits; also
supplement with vitamins and taurine for cats (2-3 tablets,
was estimated for weight by analogy with cats). In the middle
of April Victoria found out hairless patches (1-1.5 cm) on
left cheek. Veterinar took skin scraping, and there was no
itches and
dermatophytosis. As since in next time skin scrapping was
clear again, veterinar diagnosed unknown origin allergy. By
the way, Bloom has a broken tooth on left side.
7 days ago veterinar prescribe turkey monodiet, no vitamins +
antiallergenic medicine "Execam". But Bloom feels not better.
PS.
I assume this occurence is uninteresting and it's may be easy
case, but we are very uneasy about Bloom. The point is that in
Russia haven't vets with good experience of treatment of
ferrets...