From:
sukiec@optonline.com
Date: 2003-03-07 19:46:09 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] RE: ? about drugs vs surgery (long)
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <13456569.1047066369190.JavaMail.root@scandium>
I'm really frustrated right now that I
> thought I did all the right things with Odo and Quark
> - they were from a breeder, I waited until they were
> mature to get fixed, they've eaten TF their entire
> lives (with Bob Church's Chicken gravy as well now)
> and they still get the same adrenal issues that my
> first ferret, a MF, that I did everything wrong with,
> got. I just feel like a complete failure right now
There is absolutely NO reason to feel like a failure. The point of various=
possible (since these things pretty well are hypothetical for the most par=
t) precautions like providing a lot of true darkness, feeding carefully, go=
ing to a breeder who provides health and longevity records, etc. is not alw=
ays to prevent common medical problems of advanced age, because they can't =
always be prevented despite some claims I've heard that often are exaggerat=
ed or mis-remembered (which happens to us all) once actual details are requ=
ested. Sometimes the aim has to be to hopefully have the problems at a lat=
er age, or to have them be less aggressive problems. Getting a possible ad=
renal neoplasia and a possible insulinoma at almost age 8 years (which is =
about like being 80 for a human) is better than getting them at age 5. Did=
any of the things you did cause them to happen at a later age rather than =
earlier? I don't know, but maybe. These just are problems that are common=
to ferrets; that's all.
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