From:
"Sharon"
Date: 2009-11-20 23:46:37 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] sorry for the long post
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
I lost my 4 1/2 year old, Sir Didimus, on monday. Saturday he was playing, and saturday night he was dragging his right back leg. By Monday he was dragging both back legs, and his pupils were dilated. He ate well all weekend when hand fed. My vet examined him on Monday morning at 9am, he was not feeling anything when she pricked his back paws and definitely suffering. The vet felt that it may be Aleutians, I doubted that but I knew for sure he needed to be put to sleep, so I held him while it was done. I allowed the Aleutians profile and necropsy because everything happened so quickly. She took biopsies from two nodules on his liver, one on his kidney, and a mass near his stomach. The Aleutians profile from blood and liver was negative.
She said that he had extra fluid in his pericardial sac as well. Sir Didimus was always small, about 1 pound 12 ounce, but very very active with an occasional cough, and one documented run of tachycardia at the age on one. I feel that perhaps he had a stroke, maybe throwing little emboli from somewhere, maybe a lesion on the brain, but the necropsy did not include his brain. Would it be advisable to let her send the other biopsies? My other four ferrets are fine, but missing Didimus for sure.
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