From:
Vicki Montgomery
Date: 2007-01-24 18:51:35 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Ugg -Force feeding and ferretone
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
Years ago I was taught to force feed a ferret who was not eating kibble on his own by wrapping that ferret in a towel so he could not move, but I soon learned that holding him and offering soup from my finger or a spoon was all the force that is needed.
I forced a sick little girl once; she did not aspirate the soup, I was taught well and very patient. But, she knew it was time for her to go when I did not. Forcing her only made her miserable and later left me with a sense of guilt about syringing food into her mouth. I swore then that I would never again force an animal to eat and I won't. I will assist feed 'till the cows come home, I will create any and every concoction that I can think of to tempt her to eat, I will even give something that I would never put in a daily diet, but forcing is not, in my opinion, the right thing to do. We each have to make our own choices of what is right.
The other thing I keep seeing and wonder about is the giving of meds with ferretone or other oil. If I'm wrong please correct me - doesn't ferretone limit the absorption of the medication? Just wondering....
Vicki
There are a number of techniques shy of force-feeding which work the majority of the time.
Otherwise, learn at the vet hospital you use how to force-feed safely. Your little one does
not need aspiration pneumonia, esp. not now.
.
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart. And in our own despair, and against our will, comes Wisdom by the awful Grace of God...Aeschylus
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