From:
"Sukie Crandall"
Date: 2008-03-02 17:05:37 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: Outdoor playing for health.
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
--- In ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com, "sandra robinson" <fuzzyslave1@...> wrote:
>
> My biggest concerns would be spiders. AL has both black
> widow & brown recluse.
Both of those spiders do their best typically to avoid contact with
mammals. That is way the rate of such bites is so low among
humans.
Both also live inside, especially in hidden corners, in the states
where they exist.
Now, about the rate of spider bites to ferrets, those seem to
also be low, though possible, as they are with humans. See:
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/YG10473
in which Dr. Bruce Williams, noted ferret veterinary pathologist
wrote that what are thought to be spider bites in ferrets tend to
NOT be spider bites:
BEGIN QUOTE
Every time I hear spider bite, I automatically think neoplasm.
We have seen it a number of times on ths list - "looks just like a
spider bite". If you ever hear that - skip the topical treatment and
just remove it.
END QUOTE
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