From:
"Sue Liszewski"
Date: 2004-02-21 03:33:45 UTC
Subject: RE: [ferrethealth] can't figure out the problem
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <BAY15-F12nCz0b4djKM00003b8d@hotmail.com>
Please get her to a vet. Bruising can be bleeding problem or spleen
problem. The head tilt could be ear infection or neurologic problem and it
could be both. Her size and her age make it imperative to get her looked
at. I feel like you are waiting and watching ew symptoms come about and
these can be additive and the more that occur the harder they ma be to
correct. I think it could be a lot of things but she needs to see a vet.
Once she is evaluated let us know what they find and we can give you more
information. best to you and your little one.
Dr. Sue
>From: jlitrov@earthlink.net
>Reply-To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
>To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
>Subject: [ferrethealth] can't figure out the problem
>Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 19:44:59 +0000 (GMT)
>
>Hi,
>Stinky, 1.5 year old girl-ferret always have been an accident prone and
>very fragile. Sometime ago i noticed that the bones at the beginning of her
>tail (where tail and rear meets) were kind of like dislocated, it's like
>they were broken, pointing different directions. At the regular check up my
>vet said it's ok, it could of been a birth defect. I just felt like I
>should mention this to you, because it doesn't seam normal to me.
>
>About a month ago i noticed that she didn't want to come out to play, so i
>examined her and noticed that both of her hind legs look like they were
>bruised. So, i figured that she had a fight with another ferret or she fell
>in the cage. When i put her down, she couldn't walk well, kind of dragging
>her body on the floor and helping with her back legs. After a while she got
>better, black and blue went away in 2 days or so, and she started walking
>(limping of course), and so i didn't go to the vet because she was
>progressing and feeling better (throughout she was eating, drinking,
>pooping, sleeping normal). It took her about a month to get almost 100%
>back to normal, sometimes she had a little weakness in her hind legs, but
>mostly she was ok, running and playing. 3 days ago i noticed that she
>didn't want to come out out of her cage, so i examined her again and it
>seamed that she had a stiff neck, where she keeps tilting her head to one
>side and she won't tilt it to the other side or straighten it. She even
>walked, stumbling and falling kind of lopsided. Her back legs seamed very
>weak again. And, she looked kind of very wired and uncomfortable, like she
>had a muscle spasm and couldn't straighten her head to look forward. it's
>been two days, her neck is still very stiff, if i move her neck with my
>hand it turns, but very stiffly. Also, if i lay Stinky on to her back, her
>muscles everywhere are very tense, she extends her hind legs forward like
>she's made of wood and she doesn't relax her muscles until i rub her feet a
>little. It's very strange. She's eating, drinking, pooping, sleeping
>normal, but when she's walking she seams weak, and she sometimes turns her
>head normal, but most of the time her neck is lopsided. Also, her back legs
>shake a lot (i guess, front as well), it didn't just started. She always
>been a very small ferret, very shaky and a little scary-cat. But since the
>leg problem a month ago, her hind legs a shaking more. What's wrong with
>her?
>
>Thanks for your response,
>Julie
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