From:
"jbmccaughey"
Date: 2010-06-11 00:23:11 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: fat and semibald ferret
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
I don't have a lot of experience with adrenal disease, but one of my ferrets got very chubby. Coco loves food so I thought it was just weight gain. And I thought maybe the fat made the follicles on her tummy spread further apart so I didn't know the fur was more sparse than it would normally be, but finally the top of her head started thinning.
After her surgery we started to see how much the hormones had really affected her body. She was noticeably thinner but she actually weighed more. Her bottom half was trimming down, she didn't feel as mushy and she regained some muscle throughout her body and around her rib cage. At 3-4 weeks her physique had changed drastically and most of her fur had regrown, and even though her tummy was now smaller her hair was way more dense than it would have been with weight loss alone.
Our other adrenal wasted evenly and was skinny all over, so the fat thing was new for us.
Jaime
--- In ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com, "daisylouluver" <daisylouluver@...> wrote:
>
> i was wondering if anyone knows what to do for an overweight ferret with some hair issues?
> she is 6 years old and fat fat fat. I switched her to senior feed about a year ago and that was about the same time she started losing the hair on her tail. i notice she itches and bites it a lot but only recently she has chewed some of the hair off and created a scabby area on the very tip of the tail. there are little black dots everywhere only on her tail (they stop at the base) and i thought the getting fat and lazy was only because of old age but now im wondering if it's something else.
> any suggestions???
>
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