From:
Ella R
Date: 2009-09-21 18:30:55 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] Reply to a post about stools and food [rcvd w/out a subject]
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
Hi,
My response to the thread is below, but I have one more important question
to ask: She was not on flea or heartworm protection meds for a year, and I
know our vet will know what to do, but for my own information until she's
officially seen... does she need to be tested for heartworm before starting
Revolution (my other kids are on that)? She hasn't shown any symptoms of
HW, but we all know how sneaky that stuff can be.
The below is my response to the original post and questions...
I'm familiar with mixing food when changing it, but she wanted nothing to do
with her own food, and I'm assuming that's because they were putting peanut
butter (lots of it) in her food at the house where she was.. and I wasn't
doing that here. My apartment is about the size of a large motel room,
literally, and there isn't a single place at all to separate anyone. Her
own cage from her previous home is very, very small, and it wasn't terribly
clean, and we actually found a roach in her food... so we left her cage out
back. It didn't have much in it but a thin, worn out hammock with a hole in
it, a small litter pan (which she didn't use), a dish full of ferret food
and peanut butter, and poop where she went in the corner beside the litter
pan. But as I mentioned, we left the cage out back.
If I knew more than one person here I would have had them foster her for
awhile before bringing her here. But even that person has a large dog
(indoor dog) that isn't used to small animals (except for cats), and cats
and no safe place to keep a ferret. That and they don't know anything about
ferrets. So here was the only choice besides leaving her to live in that
garage.
She's beginning to eat out of the dish now, and I'm still giving her some
soupy kibble in a syringe a couple of times a day just to be sure. She's
playful, and her poops are looking more normal today, so she's improving.
Her coat and weight look fine, perfectly normal. She's a tiny, petite
little girl, but she looks and acts healthy ((knock on wood)).
Thank you for the advice. I wish I could have done this the right way with
quarantining her, etc., but if you saw my apartment, you would understand
how impossible that is. This was just an out of the ordinary situation,
unfortunately.
Ella
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