From:
"Robert Gailor"
Date: 2006-12-08 11:02:19 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] Re: Hair loss on tail
To: <ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com>
Sukie; Not to dispute your findings but, here in Florida we use A/C most of the year. I agree, taking the moisture out of the air with artificial heating or Air is not good, so put some water on the stove and let it simmer to add to the moisture, it's good for you too.
----- Original Message -----
From: Sukie Crandall<mailto:sukie@mac.com>
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com<mailto:ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 6:24 PM
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: Hair loss on tail
Wouldn't you know... just after sending I remembered:
the shampoo is Oxydex.
We have had some who lost fur on their tails go on to develop adrenal disease with the tail
being a first symptom, but not all -- for ours not even most but then not many have
gotten either here (though the ones who have seem to get rat tail with blackheads do it on
and off for a few years, always the same individuals).
One thing I THINK that I have noticed (but have not checked to be sure IF it is a valid
observation or just me thinking that I might have noticed a pattern) is that the ones where
there is more inside heating used seem to be more likely to get just plain old rat tail. It's
not that the rates of adrenal disease are any different, or anything like that. It's just that I
think I have heard more reports of later symptoms indicating adrenal disease with reports
of rat tail from the South compared to the North, and the opposite up North where there
seem to be more reports of rat tail but many of those report it clearing up seasonally. So I
have to wonder if the indoor heating is just difficult enough on some ferrets that they get
acne. The ones we have had with plain old rat tail did have definite dry skin (but not thin
like happens with adrenal disease) and a lot of dense, tar-black blackheads in the tails,
some very large blackheads -- not the orange ones that I have seen with some who have
adrenal disease. They also seemed to not be loosing the fur as much as chewing it off in
response to the itching-- with partial strands in many places from their chewing.
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