From:
sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2005-08-21 04:58:29 UTC
Subject: RE: help please
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <1160543.1124600309240.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
There are multiple possibilities, from an ingested foreign body that perforated the GI tract, to the eating certain human meds or rodent poison, to...
Among the very likely possibilities would be an ulcer that eroded a major blood vessel. Ask if the ferret was grinding teeth or showing other signs of gastric distress for a while.
Basically, the only way to actually know for sure is to do a necropsy with pathology.
Here are is some past vet info on that and clues to some possible causes:
http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org/browse.php?msg=YG234
http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org/browse.php?msg=YG647
http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org/browse.php?msg=YG5289
http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org/browse.php?msg=YG10682
http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org/browse.php?msg=YG5259
http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org/browse.php?msg=YG3835
-- Sukie (not a vet)
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