From:
"hemfcf"
Date: 2011-03-03 19:09:44 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: Abscess near anus on 1 yr old male ferret
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
Sounds like your doing good. He definitely needs to get on an antibiotic course. I had a ferret that would get an anal gland infection every now and then. Being a Marshall ferret, he should be descented. Although it is done when they are very young and often the surgery isn't performed by a vet so there may be a piece of it left that is causing trouble. Be aware that is may happen again and do everything you are doing in addition to oral antibiotics. One other thing that I did was flush the abscess with dilute chlorhexidene and put ophthalmic ointment in the abscess. Good luck.
Dr. Heather
--- In ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com, "Amanda" <amanda.evans78@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Tressie,
>
> I have an appt to take him to the vet tomorrow (Wed) morning. I spoke to his vet and she said as long as he's eating/drinking/peeing/pooping/playing he should be fine until then, and it will likely just be the pain that bothers him.
>
> It was looking great last night, and I thought it was healing nicely, but this morning as we began our cleaning routine and I opened the sore to keep it draining, it had a pocket full of pus again, which was a setback. There was hardly a drop of pus draining since Sunday, so I slowed on the compresses and just kept cleaning it and made sure it was draining, so that was probably my mistake. Poor little guy is such a trooper through all this!
>
> I'm pretty sure he is descented, he is a Marshall boy. I adopted him from my best friend, who gave me all his papers and I met him about a week after she got him.
>
>
> --- In ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com, "Tressie" <tressiedu@> wrote:
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> > You are doing everything you should until you can get him in to see the vet. Keep the area clean and monitor it. Your vet will no doubt also put him on an oral antibiotic.
> >
> > It certainly sounds like an infected anal gland...
>
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