From:
Mary
Date: 2003-01-05 03:34:12 UTC
Subject: licking ferret
To: LisetteLu@cs.com
Cc: ferret health list <ferrethealth@smartgroups.com>
Message-Id: <8E7D0D2D-205E-11D7-9AA0-000393AB6D96@attbi.com>
> She cannot stop licking me constantly, and now makes these
> little noises as she constantly grooms me. She will not leave me alone
> or
> stop following me. My guess is that this is hormonal.
my cat, dog and both my ferrets, and i think many animals, lick their
human caretakers when they are in pain.
my ferrets will lick me when i am massaging them to let me know, "not
there" or "not so hard".
licking can be a behavior of displacement. humans are so vocal about
pain. animals are very stoic. often by the time they display what we
would consider a normal response to pain they are in utmost agony.
please discuss the possibility of her teeth or some other problem
causing her pain.
mary
"Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other
nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time,"
Henry Beston