From:
gentleheartj@bellsouth.net
Date: 2004-08-18 15:04:55 UTC
Subject: RE: Absorbable Melatonin Implant
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <2920515.1092841495928.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
Thanks so much to those who answered my post!
These archived posts quoted below are some of the many informative resources I had been searching - that's how I knew I needed to get melatonin for our Josie and Jennie (the vet said, "Melatonin? Why would you want to give a ferret melatonin? They sleep enough."). Mike's comprehensive article on the topic is also must reading, and convinced me; however, it's the absorbable ones I am curious about, as it seems far preferable to have an implanted capsule, small though it is, that would be absorbed rather than 'piling up' under the skin. A post in the archive from 2002 mentions a company that was working on such an implant, but I can find nothing more current on it - would anyone happen to have heard anything, or know where to look?
Thanks again for the considerable time and knowledge you all contribute...it's priceless.
Sue J
Author wrote:
> Some recent past discussions on melatonin:
> http://www.smartgroups.com/message/viewdiscussion.cfm?gid=1423922&messageid=6480
> http://www.smartgroups.com/message/viewdiscussion.cfm?gid=1423922&messageid=9863
> http://www.smartgroups.com/message/viewdiscussion.cfm?gid=1423922&messageid=9829
> http://www.smartgroups.com/message/viewdiscussion.cfm?gid=1423922&messageid=9820
> http://www.smartgroups.com/message/viewdiscussion.cfm?gid=1423922&messageid=9784