Message Number: SG7537 | New FHL Archives Search
From: mjanke@miamiferret.org
Date: 2004-01-21 17:12:23 UTC
Subject: RE: lumpy neck?
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <1809177.1074705143455.JavaMail.root@indium.smartgroups.com>

That's probably exactly what they are... fat deposits. I've seen this a lot and my vet even attempted to biopsy a lymph node in that area once but couldn't even find it. It was all fat.

Author wrote:
> I was doing my daily rub down on my ferrets to check for weird stuff, and I have begun to notice my little boy Cody has a lumpy neck. What I mean is that right above his shoulders, on wither side of his neck, there feels like there are fatty deposits or something.