From:
sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2003-07-18 02:45:41 UTC
Subject: RE: Butter
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <5208437.1058496341166.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
Again I agree completely with Mike. Not letting a ferret roam too much, be too active, or climb (even ramps) after a surgery greatly reduces post-surgical risks. We not only confine them for a while but we don't even give them litter pots for a while; instead they use newspaper then. (In our area the newspapers do not have high clay content and are very absorbent, but if your papers are high clay ones you can use paper towels or other alternatives.) When they look up to using a litter pot we use only recycled newspaper litters after surgeries because they seem to remain cleaner for the incisions, and we do NOT use a litter pot that requires them to climb over edges. There are multiple litter pots now that have low entries, and others with shallow ramp entires.