From:
"Sukie Crandall"
Date: 2006-12-12 01:18:35 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: Due season - Great question
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
When tails only are involved people's experiences on final results vary. We've had some
who did develop adrenal disease but others who did not (including ones whose adrenals
were later checked by pathology after death).
(We have not had many with either adrenal disease or with fur loss.)
When the fur loss is in a location other than the tail then almost always the fur loss is from
adrenal disease, especially if it matches, side to side (bilateral).
Some much more rare causes:
long term steroid use
(Here is a photo of one with that cause due to life long IBD. Sherman was someone who
had earlier lost both adrenal glands, the R cleanly and encapsulated, and the L cleanly with
circulatory malformations that were threatening to burst involved with it -- yes, the left,
not the Cava. He was a rescue found as a kit with gangrene, malnutrition, and with over 30
ticks and his health never was really normal.)
http://tingilinde.typepad.com/starstuff/2004/06/sherman_the_fer_1.html
chewing it off
rubbing it off
malnutrition
extreme dermal parasite infestations
skin infections (fungal, bacterial)
possibly genetic or circulatory for a very few (Included because over about 26 years with
ferrets we have had one, a hypertrophic cardiomyopathy patient with peripheral edema on
whom extensive necropsy and pathology was later done for instructional purposes, for
whose mild fur loss on the rear legs no definite case was ever found.)
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