From:
"Sukie Crandall"
Date: 2009-08-12 15:33:53 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: salivary gland abstract
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
Okay, I have heard from a ferret vet with whom
I communicated privately. She suspects that it
is just that ferrets use other salivary glands more
but use the parotids (one of a set of perhaps 5
pairs of salivary glands) less than most mammals,
allowing the mineralization there.
Hopefully, if life were less exhausting I'd have
put that together, but many of us have incredibly
demanding lives and in the last couple of years
mine has certainly had more than its share of
demands with recent weeks being especially so.
So, we all got to learn something and that is always
good. If I get a spare moment I will have to see if
any of the past posts on ferrets who have medical
problems with salivary mucoceles or sialoceles tend
toward having those from the parotid glands and
their ducts more than from others.
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