From:
"Uli"
Date: 2005-04-24 00:18:49 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] RE: Bleeding ferret, was: Cold, weak, unresponsive ferret
To: <ferrethealth@smartgroups.com>
Message-Id: <426AE5E9.000001.01788@FERRETLOVE1>
Thank you everybody who wrote. We had Jasmine put to sleep. I was hoping
she would fade away but as I held her (around 11 p.m.!) I suddenly thought,=
this isn't right, she looked as though she was suffering. I felt bad
getting the emergency vet out but I couldn't let her suffer. So she was pu=
t
to sleep. We did an autopsy and she was just a bloody mess inside. Again =
I
don't know how she could have still been alive... I took pictures and will=
put them on my web site soon. The bladder was small (marble/ grape
sized)and there was a blood clot in there that was filling the bladder. Th=
e
liver looked abnormal, not sure if cancerous but maybe. What I have learnt=
so far is that things can look pretty spectacular and be of little
significance. We found no obvious source for the bleeding, my husband said=
maybe the blood vessels leaked? I also don't know how the blood got into
the bladder and out through the vulva (unless it came through the kidneys?)=
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At the moment I'm just puzzled and the vet didn't know much. She is a big=
animal vet but was interested in the autopsy (once she got started). The
thing on the liver looked as though it was haemorrhaging but again we're no=
t
sure it was the source for all the blood. Tissue samples have been taken s=
o
I'll hopefully know more by the middle of the week.
Ulrike
P.S. We have no (rat) poison or anything dangerous in the house and I use
washing up liquid from the health food store to clean floors and ferret
cages so no way she could have been poisoned. We also don't have any
paracetamol or anything.
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