Message Number: SG12528 | New FHL Archives Search
From: mjanke@miamiferret.org
Date: 2005-01-23 07:11:45 UTC
Subject: RE: bloody mass
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <6899029.1106464305918.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>

Sounds like it might be a prolapsed rectum. Take a look at this and see if this is what it looks like...

http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/prolapsed_rectum.htm

Not too uncommon on very young ferrets if on a hard diet too soon or in a ferret with diarrhea.

mike

Author wrote:
> My very young ferret has a bloody mass that seems to be at his
> anus. I cleaned the area, and it seems that his anus is bleeding and enlarged. I just don't know what this "cherry looking" mass could be from?