Message Number: SG12103 | New FHL Archives SearchFrom: mjanke@miamiferret.org
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 18:47:05 +0000 (GMT)
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Subject: RE: megaesophagus
Message-ID: <1979031.1104691625707.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
I know that ferrets have had feeding tubes in place for a short time. You can see one here...
http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/ben.htm
I don't know how this would be in the long term as this one was only in place during Ben's healing process. It wasn't for megaesophagus.
mike
Author wrote:
> Hi All,
> We have heard that in cases of megaesophagus in dogs and cats that they are being treated with a permanent feeding tube. Is that possible or has it been tried in ferrets?
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