From:
"xxxx"
Date: 2010-07-09 18:31:13 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: Reddened face on rescue - worry or no?
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
I just want to let everyone know, whenever I write anything on the list, I am already either on my way to the vet, or have an appointment. My vet is very skilled surgically and incredibly sincere, but other than that, with ferrets he is more of a "let it go until there is a huge problem" type of vet. Unless I go armed with a list of questions, or "what if's", he typically sends me home without wanting to do any diagnostics saying everything is okay and to bring them back if it gets worse. This may be because he is trying to save me money because I do rescue. I have had other vets in the past that run every test imaginable at the slightest opportunity. He is not like this.
He did exactly what I thought he would - he said "it's not that red" and started talking about other ferrets I had brought in for surgery.
That is why I ask for suggestions on the FHL and FML - because my vet does not do diagnostics unless I "convince" him or I have some problem I bring up, or want to specifically test for. The only thing he ended up doing was putting a swab in her ear which he looked for mites, he didn't find any, and that was it. He said give them baths.
I do not ask because I don't want to go to the vet. I understand everyone's concern because you don't know people in real life.
The ferrets face is still very red. She saw two people that day who have had ferrets for over 20 years each, and both agreed they had not seen a face like that. The girl with the red face and her sister spent all day there as we waited for another boy's adrenal surgery to be done.
Before someone says I should use another vet, the price and skill of my vet is why I go to him. There is no other vet in my state that can do what he does and no other vet I can even afford.
xxxxxxx
[That people are using vet care is always reassuring.
Posters do need to realize that with abut 1,400
members here people don't know if someone
is heading to the vet, has a vet, does not have
a yet yet, or has already taken the ferret to the
vet unless the post contains that info, and that
is true even when a pervious post says it. Heck,
I've had people not notice that some of ours
are already in care and send me a note to get
to the vet because some people do neglect that
essential. They were right to send a reminder
even though it was not applicable. It is also
reassuring that you realize these things and
respond logically.
Maybe this vet responds to insistence on testing
when a situation worries you? Perhaps that
insistence could be useful at times?
--Moderator]
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