From:
"Sukie Crandall"
Date: 2007-06-29 17:55:30 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: SCAT Mouse
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
> Now that I have kibble eating ferrets, I am doing a dissection of
> their scats and will post those soon.
>
> Cheers, Kim
Oh, there won't be anything TO find, really, Kim, when all that is looked for is outward
appearance, so don't expect anything. Some of the plant origin stuff won't digest so will
form puree as part of what comes out, but what goes in will LOOK kind of like a pureed
version of what went in unless there is intestinal disease. Of course, nutritionally, after
the ferrets' bodies have pulled the nutrients from it it won't be the same at all.
One consequence of that is that when people have ferrets who eat what they shouldn't the
people can put the waste into a little plastic bag and squish it in front of a light to see if
the foreign matter has passed. Of course, they can also dissect it (in water is easiest in
that case) as you did the fur, claw, tooth, and bone mass portion left after you washed
away the rest. That is also the technique you would use, I suspect if your ferret got hold of
something that needed to pass because of a blockage danger (raw hard veggies, latex,
rubber, plastic gloves, etc.).
BTW, here is useful "poop chart":
http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/poop_chart.htm
by Dr. Bruce Williams, veterinarian and veterinary pathologist
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