From:
JANICE GONZALES
Date: 2002-01-05 08:46:00 UTC
Subject: interesting question
I foster ferrets in my home. With mine and the fosters I
have 25. I did have 27. After reading for the past couple of
days about ECE and IBS I must ask this question. A couple of
months ago I took in four new fosters and two had what seems
to be the same as what every one has been describing. Green
loose, seedy sometimes foamy orange stools. Within 24 to 48
hours everyone of the ferrets came down with the same thing.
Most had a problem for only a day or two and are doing fine
now. I lost two who were old and had other health problems.
I had and still do have 7 ferrets on wet food. All are older,
one is 10 years old and one has Lymphosarcoma and another is
blind. All of them have been on wet food or duck soup for
some time. None of the 7 ferrets came down with this. Why
didn't these ferrets who were on the wet food get sick. The
wet food is made with ground Totally Ferret, whipping cream, a
can of 8 in One chicken, two egg yolks and water. The Totally
Ferret is the same food given to all the ferrets. Is there
something in the wet food that kept my 7 ferrets from getting
this. I will say that all the ferrets are doing great now. I
did have to force feed two of the sick ones for about a week
and one of the two had to be medicated with Prednisone. He is
doing very well now to.
Jan, the ferret Mom of many.