Message Number: SG9039 | New FHL Archives Search
From: sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2004-06-07 18:13:14 UTC
Subject: RE: Belly Sores
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <3063445.1086631994996.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>

They can range from very small to reasonably large. The largest one we've had here on a ferret who wasn't a surgical candidate was wide than a pencil eraser in diameter. At first they are barely lumps but they itch and ferrets scratch them raw and bloody.

This write-up of Dr. Bruce Williams should be of great help to you:
http://www.afip.org/ferrets/Mast/mastcell.html