From:
"Sukie Crandall"
Date: 2007-06-14 21:05:08 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: getting Bear to eat and drink...
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
Since you are worried about the kidneys have the urine specific gravity measured in the vet
office. It is easily done.
Lasix usually increases thirst but we have had one with the paradoxic response of decreased
thirst.
She also had decreased appetite because her sinus membranes were so dry that she could
not smell her food.
Solutions: Gave less Lasix but more often.
Gave HEATED (important for scent) food diluted with a lot of water many times a day and
fussed over her with much praise as she ate.
The next one will surprise some people but it worked then and she was a ferret with multiple
deformations, serious intellectual deprivation to the point of even having trouble with normal
ferret body language, and at the time she had multiple serious simultaneous medical
problems with most of them potentially fatal (sometimes that can happen with some who
have such a genetic burden to start with). Anyway, she used to also get flavored Sustical and
flavored Ensure when her heart began to press so much on her esophagus that she needed a
liquid diet. Not a standard approach, but sometimes approaches have to be shaped the
special needs. We got her 6 good years, so...
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