From:
Becky Trsek
Date: 2003-07-29 01:00:53 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] Unexplained weight loss, should we worry?
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <3F25C745.BF548BB8@charter.net>
I had a similar problem. One of my males feet swelled up and they still do=
n't know why. His temperature was over 104 and he was in the hospital for =
3 days. He lost some weight and I am still force feeding a few times a day=
now to help get the weight back up. When he was in the hospital, he got a=
ddicted to the AD food and now he doesn't want to eat his but I'm slowly ge=
tting him back on it.
JchProcess@Yahoo.com wrote:
> Last week I posted about Bashor He had a swollen face and neck with red r=
aw throat and fever of 104. After our trip to the vets He is eating again =
and the swelling has gone down but now he is very thin. Could his swelling =
have come on slowly so we didn=92t notice until it was very pronounced, The=
refore missing the weight loss. Or is the weight loss due to whatever it wa=
s that he had? We are worried about the weight loss. The vet says he is fin=
e and to give it some time. But as I said he is very thin you can feel all =
the bones in his back and shoulders. The only other thing I can think of is=
his fur seems to have thinned out quite a bit over the last two weeks or m=
aybe three. We really didn=92t worry much because he looses quite a lot of =
his fur every summer. Could this be something else this year? Should we hav=
e the vet checking for something? Our vet says the symptoms he had could ha=
ve been anything and unless he starts to feel bad again we shouldn=92t worr=
y. However we have been unable to not worry. If anyone has any ideas I wou=
ld be happy to hear them.
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