From:
"Sukie Crandall"
Date: 2007-02-14 19:37:02 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: Animal Planet episode & pumpkin pie filling
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
I've also seen that episode and it worked for the ferret.
Notice that they knew that what was in the intestine was
blunt enough that it was unlikely to tear the intestine when
the fiber forced it through.
Personally, it seems a logical thing to try if you know that
what was ingested doesn't pose injury problems.
Perhaps it is something to avoid if a string, tinsel, or
something that is to hard or too sharp has been swallowed.
Strings and the like sometimes respond to intestinal
peristalsis (wave like motions) by cutting through the
intestine -- like when dental floss is used to get clean
cake cuts.
So, I guess that in part it might depend on what was
swallowed.
--- In ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com, "davidgainesusa" <davegaines@...> wrote:
>
> My mother called me the other day to tell me she was watching Animal
> Planet and saw a segment on one of the vet shows they have wherein
> the emergency vets got pencil eraser bits to pass through a ferret by
> feeding him pumpkin pie filling.
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