From:
"rocknroll_songbird"
Date: 2007-02-06 21:49:15 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] URGENT: Mystery lump...need help identifying
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
My Summer, who is around 6-7 years old has a medium-sized lump on
her side. I'm not really familiar with the internal ferret anatomy
and was hoping if I posted a few pics of her somebody could tell me
what organ is near the lump, and what we could possibly be dealing
with.
I'm not sure how long it's been there, she recently had some stomach
problems including ulcers so we hadn't been doing our usual checking
for lumps and bumps because it seemed to upset her if we touched her
tummy too much. The ulcers are better and now she's got a lump.
Besides that, Summer has never had a health problem and is very
active and has a great appetite.
I know Summer needs to see a vet, but recently we've been losing
trust in our vet as she doesn't seem to know very much about
ferrets, (the diagnoses usually include "probably"s and "maybe"s).
If anybody has tips on finding a "good" vet it would be greatly
appreciated. We live in Nebraska and it's hard to find a clinic that
sees ferrets, let alone knows anything about them. We're never sure
if we can be sure.
The photos are in the album "Summer: Mystery Lump".
Thank you.
~Emily and the five
[Moderator's Note: your photo is not appearing. Please, also describe: location, coloration, size, on skin, under skin, hard, soft, moves, does not move, etc.
Finding vets:
See
http://ferrethealth.org/vets/
and
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/SG15794
for other references.]
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