From:
sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2004-08-18 15:55:43 UTC
Subject: RE: wobbly ferret
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <6907229.1092844543837.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
Okay, I looked up "warble" and found that it's a bot fly:
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2915.2001.00273.x=
Are you sure that the infection from the maggot is fully cleared up? My ex=
perience with a friend in Suriname 25 years ago is that those can get some =
really simmering infections. An infection could cause secondary symptoms.
Usually with those symptoms a person thinks of insulinoma and gets some sug=
ars into the ferret to perk the ferret up, but this ferret is younger than =
most with insulinoma.
Was there a possibility of a head or spinal injury?
Was there exposure to a toxin, including natural gas?
Other things that cross my mind seem like more of a longshot.
I think I'd really be trying for an emergency appointment in this situation=
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Author wrote:
> I have a 1 1/2 yr old female MF ferret. She has always been in good heal=
th. She was fine yesterday. This morning she didn't get up with the other=
s, and when I went to check on her she was obviously not right. She is sor=
t of curved to one side, and wobbly. She seems pretty out of it, kind of c=
onfused. I gave her gerber turkey and she ate about 2 tsp of that, and I t=
ried to give her water. She didn't eat anything else, but did walk all aro=
und the house, wobbly and sort of crooked, for an hour. Then climbed up in =
to the small ferret cage I have by herself and is now asleep. I have called=
the vet who can't see her until late this afternoon. She has always been =
my most active, acrobatic fuzzy. A month ago she had a warble in her side,=
and went to the vet to have it removed, and was on anti-biotics (pink stuf=
f)while the hole cleared up, and she also had a rabies shot, since she like=
s to go outside with me. The warble hole healed quickly and she seemed fine=
. Does anyone know what these symptoms are? Thank you. Mary =
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