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sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2006-09-07 22:52:16 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] RE: Ketamine (offshoot topic from Pre-euthanasia - Telazol or Torb?)
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
A very different question, and with a ferret who is then getting a mercy shot it would not apply, but, since ketamine was brought up, is there any reason to think that ketamine when used as an anesthesia might cause scary hallucinations in ferrets when they again waken? I've read that possibility has been considered for bears (but not what was decided, if anything), and I know we had to be very careful with the chimps decades ago because it was known that can happen with humans once they are beyond a certain age, so we stopped using it when one about four year old chimp had a major fright after its use. (Three of us traded him off, alternately comforting him until he'd bite badly enough for another to take him until he finally calmed down which can't have been as long as it felt to me, so having seen what he went through I'd hate anything to frighten a ferret as badly as Maynard was frightened.)
I have read that there can be a kidney health consideration with Ketamine in ferrets. Again, that would not matter a a way to soothe a ferret into a mercy shot...
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