From:
"Sukie Crandall"
Date: 2007-06-19 15:32:41 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] extra grooming, or sudden aggression, or "mating behavior", or potty change...
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
Okay, there are behavioral changes which can
indicate that an adrenal growth is present.
They also could indicate other problems, for
instance, urinary tract stones (in which cause
the TYPE of stone needs to be found from urine
pH and preferably also from the stone or grit
itself being studied), or marking behavior from
increased nervousness, but each of these changes:
extra grooming mounting or grooming (which may
indicate hormonal changes in the individual who is
the passive one OR in the one who is taking the
action), sudden onset of mothering behavior (such as
treating your toes as if they were infants), sudden
changes in urinary behavior (which can indicate
blockages in males or infections in either that can be
secondary to adrenal disease.
Heck, we even had one whose right adrenal needed to
be just debulked because it had grown into the Vena
Cava but she lacked enough collateral circulation to
survive a ligation. So, she had adrenal symptom
onsets three times and her personal indication, which
we have never seen in another ferret was that she would
pin our youngest male and urinate on his shoulders and
head.
Here are wonderful places to begin to learn about adrenal
disease:
posts from AFERRETVET on adrenal in
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/
http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/basics.htm
http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/adrenal.htm
This one is a tad older but explains some very important
points:
http://www.afip.org/ferrets/aae.html
and this is important for understanding neoplasia:
http://www.afip.org/ferrets/PDF/neoplasia.pdf
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