From:
mjanke@miamiferret.org
Date: 2003-02-23 04:39:38 UTC
Subject: RE: Ferret Gasping
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <206244.1045975178633.JavaMail.root@scandium>
Dr. Williams is in Las Vegas I believe, and may not be around to answer your post for a while.
The reaction you are describing sounds like what I see with hypoglycemic seizures, minus the level of sound you're hearing. I know that probably doesn't help much but thought I'd put that out there. Is he getting enough nourishment to keep his blood glucose up? I don't know... just grasping for reasons.
I've also seen some pretty horrible looking bruising after surgery and in Punky Doodle's case, it didn't seem to be a problem other than it looked terrible.
mike
Author wrote:
> Now, my biggest concern and the thing I hope you can explain most is the "sucking/gasping/nashing/grinding noise". I have heard this with several ferrets and it has NEVER been a good omen. Dickens has just started doing it and it started 24 hours (today at 16:00 EST) after his surgery. His mouth opens half way, he gets a distant look in his eyes and then his mouth opens and closes a little as he seems to "suck wind" but it is accompanied by a horrible nashing, cartilage grinding sound in his throat.