Message Number: SG9039 | New FHL Archives SearchFrom: sukiec@optonline.net
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 19:13:14 +0100 (BST)
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Subject: RE: Belly Sores
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
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