Message Number: SG8289 | New FHL Archives Search
From: Ferret Wise Shelter
Date: 2004-03-18 05:43:53 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] Newbie...Very sick baby
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-Id: <5.1.1.6.2.20040318004150.028bf950@mail.usaexpress.net>

Has anyone given thought to the possibility of a crushing / bruising injury
such as a injured spleen?

Young ferrets are vulnerable to being squeezed to hard- a splenic rupture
is a possibility- it would explain the hard abdomen and the bloody stool.

>Alicia D.

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