From:
"kblausman"
Date: 2008-02-18 00:36:00 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Ferret smell question
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
I have a rehab here now that I would like to ask for advice on. The
ferret ate a sock I guess a couple weeks ago (second and third hand
info) he was taken to the vet at least week after. I know he had
xrays, and had to be rehydrated, he is now on a laxative and
antibotics. He is keeping his medicine down and using the bathroom,
though not huge amounts, they said he been having diarea. Ok here
goes, the details are a little lacking at best, but orginal owner is
out of town, others involved knew very few facts, vets are closed...
His rectum is protruding a little bit, is there a way to help this
and should I even attempt it.
Next he smells really, really bad...Like the smell your dog would get
when it would roll in something dead. He looks healthy enough, is
eating, drinking and pooping, I have not forced a bath, since he only
arrived today and I am trying to gain his trust and they said he is a
very, very bad biter. Does anyone know what might make this kind of
smell, he is young about 5 months old and I can see nothing else on
him that should smell. It does not really smell like a dirty cage
smell, but then I keep mine clean, so maybe I have no idea how it
should be and he is clean. The mother said he has smelled that way
from the beginning, and that he came from a breeder in Dothan, AL and
that he was supposted to be descented.
Could parts of the sock (I need to find out how much and how much has
past, but no one seemed to know) have set up inside and rotted? I
had a cousin once stuff a bean up her nose (a kid, don't ask me why)
and she began to stink so much that we would not play with her,
anyway the doctor found it and it had taken root almost, skin grown
around it and had this horrible smell, it almost reminds me of
that...I am not smell sensitive in that I know really bad smells from
normals ones, I rehabbed skunks (even none decented ones), squirrels,
deer, primates, ect... but this is a weird smell kind of off smell.
But then I have am not sure what an udescented ferret would smell
like, though I am pretty sure my one from 30 years ago was most
likely not descented...
I know I need more info, but I just wondered if anyone has ever had
this experience before. Dang I wish you could just send a smell over
the internet like we can sound and pictures...
Kendra
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