Message Number: YPG1347 | New FHL Archives Search
From: "Nicole"
Date: 2007-02-25 15:18:31 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Me and my vet are stumped, I need all the help you guys can give me
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com

I have a young adult ferret (about one year of age) who has become extremely

lethargic and weak. It's not where he sleeps a lot, he sleeps all the time and

when we pick him up and put him on his feet he collapses in that spot, he

also drags himself to go to the potty and some times after he goes he just

lays

there in it. When he was younger he also used to cough alot and now when you put your
ear to his nose you can hear him wheeze a little bit. He also whimpers in the middle of the
night and first in the morning when you pick him up.Me and my vet at first suspected him
to be IBS/IBD previous and

thought it could be true this time. We put him on the regular treatments

(amoxy. pepto bismol, A/D food, rebound) but he didn't get better and the

lethargy worsened. Now he is also on Prednisone but he is still extremely

lethargic. My vet did an extensive blood panel testing all his organs, white

and red blood counts, everything and everything came back normal. It has

been a day or two and Key Largo hasn't responded at all to anything, he eats

and drinks perfectly fine when we offer it to him and has bowel movements

frequently (stool is the mucus bird-seed like associated with IBS) Key Largo

is also deaf, if that has to do with anything. I want to know what you think of

all of this.



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