From:
Sukie Crandall
Date: 2010-01-17 22:33:50 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] Amputation of Hind leg 1st time for vet any advice for him or me
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
On Jan 17, 2010, at 4:13 PM, MJB wrote:
> I am fostering a little 3 year old MF female fert. She has been
> limping about 10 weeks. I took her in and an X-Ray revealed what
> looks like bone cancer in a hind leg
>
Ferrets are very prone to tissue retraction around amputations so the
vet should leave a large soft tissue pad there to avoid that
complication.
Sukie (not a vet)
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http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/
http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html
http://www.miamiferret.org/
http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/
http://www.ferretcongress.org/
http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml
http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html
all ferret topics:
http://listserv.ferretmailinglist.org/archives/ferret-search.html
HAPPY: http://www.6footsix.com/my_weblog/2010/01/high-fives-for-happiness.html
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(2010, Steve Crandall)
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