From:
o__my@hotmail.com
Date: 2004-03-18 06:53:59 UTC
Subject: RE: Newbie...Very sick baby
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <2782241.1079592839729.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
Until you get her to the next vet try feeding her ensure plus. It will give=
her some nutrients. It is sold at the drug stores and at the grocery store=
s where you find stuff for elderly people to take as supplements.Warm it sl=
ightly like you would for a human baby. Vanilla works best. No chocolate.Th=
e meat baby food is a great idea if she will eat it for you. Put it on your=
finger see if she will lick it off your finger. Sometimes warming it helps=
. Try to keep her warm so she doesn't use her energy for that. Heat pad on =
LOW only with several layers between her and the heat so she doesn't get to=
o hot. I usually will just lay a sick one on my chest so they get my body w=
armth. I wish I could offer you more. I am so sorry that you are going thru=
this at such an early stage of ferret ownership. I don't know how to e-mai=
l you directly so I hope yo uget this soon. Good luck, Mary Jo e-mail O__my=
@hotmail.com
Author wrote:
> Ill just get to the facts...I have a 8 week old..just got her last week..=
.she seemed very active happy and was seemingly very healthy...she went to =
bed last night after playing with my husband and children..and by morning s=
he was listless...she is usually up running around her cage wanting out..I =
had to get her out of her cage..and wake her up...and I sat her on the floo=
r..and she just layed there..I called a local vet and went in...I dont thin=
k she knew what to say,...told me that ChiChi was dehydrated and very very =
sick....took xrays to make sure there wasnt any blockage and found nothing.=
.took her temp and said it was a little belowe normal and her heart rate bo=
thered her....she sent me home with my sick baby and told me to give her su=
gar water every 30 minutes and that the outlook was very very bad.. I have =
been giving Chi Chi her sugar water like she told me..and she even once tod=
ay got up..and got a drink from her bowl..she has had two stools today and =
they were both black tarry looking and she has urinated also...only time sh=
e does move is when she hears my voice...or I sit her down...she then kinda=
crawls back to me...other than the one time that she did get up to drink o=
n her own..that is all the activity she has done..her stomach seems to be w=
here the problem is..I think it looks swollen and hard feeling..the vet che=
cked it out and told me she found nothing..I dont know what to do..I read s=
omewhere about chicken baby food...should I try this?..Im not sure she is g=
oing to make it through the night....Any advice?...Thanks in advance
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