Message Number: SG7308 | New FHL Archives SearchFrom: mjanke@miamiferret.org
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 02:29:51 +0000 (GMT)
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Subject: RE: Kira got sick, and someTHING came out of her??
Message-ID: <1160626.1073442591258.JavaMail.root@indium.smartgroups.com>
Not too common, but yes, ferrets have been known to vomit hairballs. I've also heard of them passing out the other end. That definitely looks like one and it looks like she saved herself a surgery to remove it because I believe in most cases, they just sit in the stomach, gowing ever bigger.
mike
Author wrote:
> Then I looked closer, and started gagging from the smell, and noticed it was a huge hair ball. I started picking at it with toothpicks. It is almost as think as the tip of my pinkie, and was nothing but hair. I was shocked. Did this actually come out of her?
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