Message Number: YG14323 | New FHL Archives Search
From: Russell Prater
Date: 2002-06-30 07:10:00 UTC
Subject: Re: question about protein and question about an eye

keddabedda wrote:

> Said to feed raw or cooked meats, raw or cooked eggs, and/or whole
> milk. She wants nothing to do with any of them. The only thing I
> can get her to eat is chicken baby food with nutrical and ferretone
> and a bit of water. Is this acceptable enough?

Sounds pretty good to me. How about adding a tablespoon of heavy
whipping cream. I add a crushed half of a lactaid tablet in case they
are lactose intolerant.

> Also, when I had her at the vet, I noticed her eye was bloodshot. He
> looked at it and said it was fine, just irritated. I looked at it
> again tonight with the help of my husband, and it appears that a very
> small piece of her eye is torn. there is a minute piece of skin that
> is still attached to her eye.

I'm a little hyper sensative about eyes. If you are seeing what you say
you are seeing, I'd get her back to the vet and point it out to him.
That is surely not normal and is possibly dangerous to her sight.

I am not a vet.

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Russ, Booger, Bonnie & Clyde
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