From:
sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2005-07-27 19:24:40 UTC
Subject: RE: UTI
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <2273865.1122492280945.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
It is entirely possible that he just doesn't know how to stay clean, but it would not hurt to have his urine checked (for things like bacteria, blood, pH to check for chances of either struvite stones or cystine stones), and urine testing is easy to do. BTW, the urine pH range for ferrets can be found near the top in
http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/physiology.htm
which also tells a LOT about ferret blood test values.
(A RARE problem that can show up young is a bladder diverticulum but your vet will consider that depending on the test results. It really is NOT a likely thing to run into; we've encountered only one with that in 24 years (who turned out to also be one of the ones here who gets cystine stones but a year after his ordeals he is now recovered so well that no one would know what he went through).)
Author wrote:
> I have a youngster who stays pretty wet, too. Belly, thighs. He's not 5 months old yet and weighs 3.5 pounds with fairly short legs. I just assumed he didn't have enough clearance to stay out of the puddle he was making. Now I wonder whether I should be worrying. He seems healthy otherwise--rowdy, muscular, and soft--though he may be a little TOO sweet about letting me snuggle him. Is messy pee necessarily a sign of a problem?
> Clover