Message Number: SG7938 | New FHL Archives Search
From: Steve Austin
Date: 2004-02-17 20:01:46 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] Re: Bloodwork / Vena Cava?
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <20040217.162418.2344.3.kazpat1@juno.com>

I have my vet try first without anesthesia, usually a jugular
stick. Then if he needs to use anesthesia we do, and
it is such a light dose of inhaled gas and so fast that the ferret is up
and about
in less than 10 minutes, and we go home.

Patty

> While at the vet's today we asked her if she could do blodwork
> without
> anesthesia. She said no because she now gets blood from the vena
> cava instead of the
> jugular. The vet we saw today always
> has us
> leave our kids for the day when she does bloodwork. We'd like
> opinions on the
> vena cava procedure vs the jugular.
> Thanks so much,
> Tiffany, Cindy and Slinky who is a very hard to regulate diabetic

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