Message Number: YPG257 | New FHL Archives Search
From: "jhnlewington"
Date: 2006-11-30 05:25:09 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Potting mix
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com

Hi,
I am sorry to have put the cat amongst the pigeons or should i say
ferrets amid the potting mix! I just can't see why anyone would want
ot have potting mix for ferrets to play in. Come to think of it rice
is not an alternative.Just keep things simple.
Having had a ferret with Cryptoccosis and a suspect that he got into
the garden mulch store(similar to potting) i am rather sesitive to
this kind of exposure for ferrets. Granted my ferrets are in and out
living ferrets and in a hot climate.(Australia)
Potting mix or whatever can be a suspect material.Are the packet
details really 100% right? There is some concern to people nowdays
what as to what is put on the packet of cornflakes as details of
content let alone any other product! (Slight exageration!).
What about things for pet ferrets?
People have died from Legionnaire's Disease from potting mixture by
handling or inhalation.
Ferrets are diggers no doubt and of course one can't stop them. Their
nasal sense is probably as good as a dog and cat; they love strange
smells, and the nasal passage is a quick way not only to the lungs
but the brain.
It should be possible to get them more interested in 'play' in
plastic tube tunnels etc.
These questions are discussed in my new 2007 book Ferret
Husbandry,Medicine and Surgery,as Sukie Crandall
indicated. (in chapter 12)





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