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From: miamiferret
Date: 2002-01-09 18:47:00 UTC
Subject: Re: Gagging when yawning...

Barney Fife once said, "Everybody has a uvula." I don't know if that
applies to ferrets, but I suspect it might. Perhaps that's what
you're seeing at the back of his throat?

mike

--- In Ferret-Health-list@y..., "Ulrike Stanley" <ferretlove@n...>
wrote:

> he was yawning but as soon as he yawned, he gagged again. I got a
torch and
> looked into his mouth and down his throat but everything looks
normal.
> There was a dangly bit at the back of his throat but is that part
of the
> soft pallet