From:
"Sue Liszewski"
Date: 2004-08-14 19:10:10 UTC
Subject: RE: [ferrethealth] Dehydration, Please Help!
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <BAY15-F19acnEDQlYJh00003703@hotmail.com>
Go to the vet for some subQ's and have them teach you how to do it. Good
Luck
Dr. Sue
>From: Jen Phillips <ferretlover@hideyhole.org>
>Reply-To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
>To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
>Subject: [ferrethealth] Dehydration, Please Help!
>Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 00:27:30 -0400
>
>Our great day of improvements has quickly gone downhill. This evening we
>noticed that Fria's water hadn't gone down much, and she hadn't soiled her
>potty area. We got her out to check her out, give meds and some Nutrical,
>and when my fiancee finished giving her the antibiotic her neck was still
>standing up where he had her scruffed. To make sure we weren't seeing
>things, he pinched the skin again and it's not flattening out.
>
>We immediately tried getting some Pedialyte into her, and finally got her
>to take approximately 5 1/2 tbsp. from a spoon, though it had Nutrical
>mixed in. She refused it any other way. Her skin seemed a bit less doughy
>afterwards, but not quite normal.
>
>She suddenly seems disinterested in the water in her cage, which is clean,
>fresh water. She also seems to be more groggy and sleepy tonight. I'll
>check back here for messages shortly, but if she doesn't cooperate enough
>to get more in her soon and I still don't have any replies, I'm just
>heading straight to the vet with her.
>
>Happy Dookin',
>The Hidey Hole Gang - http://www.hideyhole.org/
>Jen, Mike & The Critters
>The Ferrets - Loki, Fria, Jamocha, Vivi & Duke
>The Hedgehog - Punk
>The Rats - Plato, Algernon & Mystique
>The Chicken - Dixie
>
>
>
>
>
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