From:
"MJB"
Date: 2009-11-12 18:13:25 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Euthanized because of a hairball Fossa Update
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
I posted asking for help on Fossa a few months ago (grinding teeth, non responsive to helicobactor meds normal blood work, Ultrasound fine ect.)and only received one kind response saying sometimes it takes longer and just hang in there.
I finely just couldn't see her in the pain she was in ( It was down to forced feedings) and couldn't keep her pain under control with the pain meds and had her euthanized. I hated it. A bouncing around ferret put to death. I had a second vet Ultrasound her one week before I had her euthaninized also. So, she had 2 Ultrasounds 60 days & 7 days before her death. Neither vet hospital picked up the hairball.
Upon necropsy she had a hairball cast of her stomach and that was the cause of her pain and death. I post this so if you have a ferret with Fossa symptoms you may consider an exploratory surgery. No one even mentioned one to me as an option. I didn't think of a hairball because I had given her a 5 day regime of pumpkin and petromalt just in case of a blockage. I would have thought that any hairball would have been removed then. I would have thought that a hairball would show up on an Ultrasound. They are suppose to I am told. But hers did not, twice and it cost her her life. I can't believe I killed my ferret for no real reason. Please learn from mine & Fossa' experience and don't let it happen to you and your ferret! Thanks, MJB
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