From:
Sukie Crandall
Date: 2003-07-29 16:36:46 UTC
Subject: Repeated request: the health problems of rescues (Barb Clay may be
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com, rocky_rrr@YAHOO.COM, co-list@yahoogroups.com
able to to use this info right now.)
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In working with Barbara Clay (who is one of the people you keep
hearing so much about in relation to the recent rescue situation
http://www.pooflinger.com/hagerstown/ferrets.html,
http://www.pooflinger.com/hagerstown/ ) and a dozen other wonderful
people I adore: Judy Cooke, Steve Crandall, Danee DeVore, Renee
Downs, Alicia Drakiotes, Troy Lynn Eckart, Julie Fossa, Bill Gruber,
Linda Iroff, Betty Janner, and Pam Sessoms on getting together
guidelines for future legal seizure situations we have encountered a
few areas where more input in really needed. (Legal seizures
themselves are off-topic so I would be going there in discussion and
none of us can due to the rules, but the medical considerations are
very real and very important for saving ferrets' lives. They are
also completely on-topic for the FHL. If you have info to impart on
this topic now is an excellent time to do so.)
One of the gaps in the documentation is the area of the medical
problems or special medical considerations for ferrets who come from
very difficult conditions. Alicia has already noted that she finds
pre-op blood work more necessary for starved ones because more of
them seem to have trouble with anesthesia. There are a number of FHL
members who have or have had such rescue ferrets. Could you teach us
all in case there is something we should know which just hasn't been
considered or encountered, or which has been forgotten?