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sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2006-02-27 16:59:42 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] RE: Ferret outta control, help
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Okay, why are you giving her the antihistamine? Is she itching?
I gather that she is on Prednisolone for the insulinoma and is having her blood sugar checked regularly? Has she had a CBC with Chemistry Panel (not just a plain CBC) recently?
The behavior you mention can be from either of two things that I can think of offhand, or from the combination of them.
First off, if the other adrenal is kicking up that can at times cause aggression. It can happen with any adrenal growth but I have read some shelter people comment that they have observed aggression more commonly when the growth is something like lympho based there. I do NOT know if there is any data to support that. I do know only my own experiences on that score: that of two we had who had marked aggression toward a ferret or a human with an adrenal growth in 25 years one of them had lympho there. This is one reason I think that a CBC with a Chemistry Panel would make sense. It can NOT diagnose lymphoma and it can NOT detect an adrenal growth, but if there is disease bad enough to throw off other values it will spot that and that will say that something untoward is going on. That is how we first realized that Ashling probably had either lymphoma or carcinoma in her pancreas instead of insulinoma -- too much was off. Besides, if the trigger of this is an adrenal growth then you will be considering surgery for the adrenal and pancreas (the insulinoma) and you would want this test beforehand, anyway, to spot if the ferret may not be a good surgical candidate before deciding firmly on surgery.
The other possible cause is plain old frustration. If your ferrets don't have a strong hierarchy or if this ferret is one who has some difficulty knowing how to interact with others then that could have caused the initial behavior. Confinement, especially solitary confinement would just worsen that.
How bad was the aggression that led to you separating them? What type was it? How strong was it? What injuries occurred? Where were they on the bodies of the ferrets this one was aggressive toward? If the ferret was not doing serious injury or trying to do serious injury then it is better to have supervised time together so that they can work out their own social differences.
What is the background of this ferret?
Are their specific individuals with whom this ferret is clashing? What is their background?
What were the social dynamics like before? What are they like now?
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