From:
"dekan_edun"
Date: 2009-02-05 14:39:23 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] FERRET HELP PLEASE fur loss, listless, large mass
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
Hi everyone, we are new to this list. My daughter has a female that
is 6 years of age who is very ill. We noticed hair loss about 8
months ago, and she is now bare on her lower back and her tail does
not have much either. We thought Adrenal Disease... two weeks ago,
she started to act very listless, no energy at all...just wanting to
sleep, and she is scratching like crazy. We took her to our vet
(one of which is not too knowledgeable about ferrets as our regular
vet retired a year ago) and they took an x-ray of her abdomen which
showed a huge mass in there. They think it may be an enlarged
spleen? They wanted to do exploratory surgery but my daughter did
not want to put her ferret through this. They sent us home with
Prednisone 1.5mg/ml and we are to give her 1.0 ml once a day. Now
the mass in her abdomen is huge, I can feel it from the outside of
her body. Her breathing is labored. We are feeding her duck soup,
she will eat some dry food here and there... she will try to play
at times and other times, she just wants to sleep.
My question... is there anything we should be doing for this
animal? Should we let them do exploratory surgery or would it
help? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Kathy
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