From:
Susie Hayes
Date: 2005-04-10 19:10:44 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] RE: Insulinoma/Lymphnosarcoma
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <6597453.1113161711545.JavaMail.nobody@magnesium.smartgroups.com>
First let me expline
> about Obie and his Lymphoma.. He is a 3 to 5 year old male hes half
my
> vet drs and half my ferret, I got him a couple years back when i had
> took one of my shelter ferrets in for an illness, and they brought
out
> Obie to me saying they wanted me to take him into my shelter cause
> they wanted him to have a life with other ferrets with what time he
> had left that he had Lymphoma, so i took him and pred his meds home
> with me and he has been here sence Sept of 2002. yes hes had to go in
> a couple times and all but hes never had surgey or biopsy done with
me
> having him, yes hes had a few bad days but would bounce back and be
> his happy go lucky self again. and with reading up on lymphoma a
> ferret donet live that long at least thats what i was thinking, the
> drs always talk about his spleen being large or ya a couple time they
> have said his nodes were big but never said anything eles except let
> him live out his happy life with other ferrets so i do nonthng. he
> takes his preds once a day he eats good plays very well and hes a
brat
> sometime and i love him to pieces but theres always in the back of my
> mind does he relly have lymphoma for having it for 3 years now they
> had him a year befor i got him 2 years ago. and no they dont even do
> blood test on him so what can i say..
2. I have a 7 month
> old male name Bandit hes been having problems every sence i rescued
> him a few months back. hes even had surgey for posable adrendal cause
> he had hair loss on the back of his neck it was round size of a
> qurater and come to find out it was the flea stuff they put on him
> called front line for cats and kittens. sence then hes been sick,
> hes had upper respatory infection a couple time but was treated with
> amoxl drops. but sence easter hes been sick with not being able to
poo
> on his own so i had to help him so i would put vasline on his hinny
> cause it looked like it was stuck out alittle and eretteded hes
> been at the vet 3 times sence easter they took x-rays but would say
> nonthing was wrong with him but gave me amoxil drops and one time
they
> gave him a laxstive to help him poop. but he still has some problams
> going potty. so the other day Fri I took him to another vet cause on
> thurs my vet changed the amoxil to Albon drops cause they didnt like
> the way his poop looked. so i took him to another vet and they
> couldnt find anything wrong with him except to take him off the albon
> change his food diet to totely ferret food and he was on a new food
> that I got off a friend called Natural Gold ferret food. some of the
> ferrets would eat it but some of them wouldnt even touch the food so
i
> had mixed it with pro one kitten food. I wanted my persoanls and
> shelter ferrets to have the best and all but anyways sence the! dr
> took Bandit off his food diet of Natural food pro on kitten food and
> put back on the ultra blend select ferret food only in fact i took
> all the ferrets off the Natural Gold and sence then Bandit is pooping
> better more alert then hes been in 3 weeks but still does not want
any
> other ferret around him at all he wants to be left alone unless hes
> with Maxwell or Airess my personal ferrets. this morn I went in to
> check in on Bandit he wants out of his cage for play so i let him all
> the other ferrets are asleep play time is not til noon so i let him
> out he only went up to my chair i sit in when i watch T.V. and he sat
> there for an hour without takeing off and none of my ferrets do tha
> they cant sit still for 5 seconds.. I am so confused on him I dont
> know what to do anymore. but he dont want no one to touch him me. and
> other then Maxwell and Airess if another ferret even so much touches
> him hes honest to god screams going into circles not wanting them
near
> him so hes in a cage of his own with just airess or maxwell takeing
> turns being with him is it.. yes he is Hard of hearing too. so im
> sorry this is long but guys im at my wit ends with him in the the
> several years ive had a shelter rescue for my fuzzies Bandit is the
> first one to be sick or act the way he does.. if he makes it I will
> be bring him to the Symposium with me as he will not eat or let
anyone
> touch him.. Can you gys help direct me the right way. im confused..
> Susan and 24 fuzzies and 9 personal fuzzies
>
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sukiec@optonline.net wrote:
I strongly agree with Mike. Infections also inflame the nodes.