From:
tlcoffey@sbcglobal.net
Date: 2005-07-22 20:29:26 UTC
Subject: RE: Teddy - fever, bloody stools, vomiting, mucous, stayed at the vets
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <28259286.1122065092763.JavaMail.nobody@strontium.smartgroups.com>
Teddy never used to have the glatchies but in retrospect, he started having the
"glatchies" about the same time he started slowly losing weight. Everyone is the
house seems to have allergies of some sort and since he liked to root around in the
litter... I just thought he had the allergy coughy, wheezy, sneezies.
I didn't even know that ferrets could get hairballs or pseudo-hairballs until trying to
educate myself on what might be going on with him. I never even thought that he
might actually be eating non-food objects.
Glatchies is a good term. Anyone that has heard a ferret do this will probably say
that it perfectly describes the noise.
So far, all I've managed to get out of the office girl at the vet is that he is "doing
fine" but then she says that the vet wants to keep him for a while. Talk about mixed
messages... The vet is in surgery all afternoon and won't be done until early this
evening. I requested a barium xray but I don't know if one has been done yet.
Teresa
Author wrote:
> I so hate exposed fake fleece and exposed fake fur on ferret bedding or shelf
covers.
> The main reason is that we had one who loved to eat in bed and he got a massive
partial blockage from those fibers when what had been thought to be a fur ball was
analyzed.
> So, bit by bit (and there are still some hard to do old ones which I haven't gotten
to that are still in storage) I began sewing sheeting material over all of the fake
fleece and fake fur. The result was that ferret never had to have anything removed
from his stomach again, but the benefits went beyond that. The bedding became
much easier to clean, the washer and drier (and drier vent) stayed cleaner, and the
beds have lasted, and lasted...