From:
lovef@mindspring.com
Date: 2004-08-05 17:23:20 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] RE: Melatonin Implants
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <5770590.1091726600967.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
I heard Dr. Murray talk about the implants at the Ferret Symposium in Atlanta. My paco had just died one month earlier, due to unrelated complications from him adrenal surgery. I talked to my vet (who was also there) and told her I wanted all of mine done -- only Trixie was showing signs again less than a year after her first surgery and she was only 2 yrs. old. I decided to get all of mine implanted. All look great!!! This past Spring I have two new fuzzies, one about a year, and the other at 6 months. All 7 fuzzy got their implants -- as a preventative. No outward signs of any side effects. Fuzzy coats are beatiful (even Trixie's is back to better than normal), and energy and bodies look great -- not small fuzzies! Of course, I do feed them a nightly snack of Chicken Gravy (with 50% turkey).
If you have any other questions, email me privately, and I will gladly answer your questions.
Florence
Author wrote:
> Is anyone else doing the melatonin implants on ferrets who do not have adrenal
> disease? Are there any other side effects to melatonin other than what Mike listed
> in the article? (Thanks for the great article Mike). If there are no other side effects
> (do we know if there are any long-term effects?), what would be the harm of
> 'testing' this on my ferrets? I lost 2 boys to adrenal, and I want to do what I can to
> prevent it... but obviously dont want to subject them to other risks also.
> Andrea