Message Number: SG14459 | New FHL Archives Search
From: alessandrocalligaris@libero.it
Date: 2005-06-22 12:05:55 UTC
Subject: Hind legs paralysis? Help needed.
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
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Hi to all from Italy,

two days ago I realized that my 5 year old male (Tobia) didn't move hind legs in a normal manner: sometimes keeping them slightly open and sometimes, while walking, the legs - the left one more that the right one - just didn't sustain him and slip aside. Yesterday I took him to the vet., who made an injection of cortisone. The hypotesis is of an inflammation of the nerves on the backside (sorry for my broken english). I'll take Tobia back to the vet. on Friday.

I heard and read quite a lot of stories about hind legs paralysis in ferrets: does anybody know how to fight/prevent it, or which are the most useful clinical analysis?

Thanks a lot,
Alessandro.