From:
"Tony Clarke"
Date: 2009-07-30 23:01:53 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: Scent Gland
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
--- In ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com, "stevieboy182003" <sjone9@...> wrote:
>
> We adopted one of our sweetest girls from the Ohio rescue that was
> closed down several years ago. We had her spayed but left the scent
> gland intact. She has always been great and only used it if she was having a bad dream or was scared by another ferret (this only rarely).
> For the last few days Abby has been expelling on a regular basis,
> 2-4 x day;sometimes when holding her or even if she is snuggling with her sisters. When my wife palpated Abby's perianal area she felt a swelling. She seemed to remember something about having to manually express this gland when it was swollen.
>
read the following
for a history of my Suki's anal gland problems.
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/FHL7207
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/FHL7642
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/FHL9125
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/FHL9303
Anal glands are not normally removed in the UK unless there is a medical reason
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