Message Number: SG11091 | New FHL Archives Search
From: mjanke@miamiferret.org
Date: 2004-10-20 16:35:35 UTC
Subject: RE: problems urinating
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <2670241.1098290135724.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>

After you've exhausted all other options, you could talk to your vet about the possibility of doing a perineal urostomy. That's where they reroute the urinary tract of a male ferret out the back. A fair number of male ferrets have had this procedure done, so it is doable.

mike

Author wrote:
> but I cannot see putting the ferret down due to being unable to urinate. There has to be a solution out there somewhere, we just haven't found it yet. Any ideas? Any input is welcome.