Message Number: FHL13593 | New FHL Archives Search
From: "Bonnie"
Date: 2011-07-11 17:20:25 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: Mass/Tumor in ear
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com

This was most likely a botfly larva Paula. I see them in animals that spend a lot of time outdoors (horses, dogs), have never seen one in a ferret. They are fairly distinctive though, you would be able to see the breathing hole in the mass that the larva needs to breath.
Bonnie

--- In ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com, "Paula Peterson" <wildlife4him@...> wrote:
>
> I had a ferret that had a mass come up on his ear that turned out to be an
> infection. When the vet lanced it to clean it out, he found a fly larve in


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