From:
"KaRayZee"
Date: 2011-08-20 04:02:57 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: Glucose check
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
Otter gets fed every 4 - 5 hours around the clock. I did try to feed him kibble but he spit it out.
Otter is not on prednisolone, he's on prednisone he get 1/5th of a 5mg pill twice a day. Its really hard to divide 1/5 of a tiny white pill. He weighs 1.13lb or he weighed that on Monday, he has definatly gained weight.
He is alert, eats great, and plays with my other 2 ferrets.
I asked my vet, who is not very ferret savvy, about prednisolone and he said that prednisone is fine. Is it?
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You actually have to be careful not to OVER feed him as well. It's an easy cycle to fall into, thinking you are preventing seizures by giving him plenty of food, but at the same time, he starts gaining weight, becoming more lethargic, and becoming dependent only on your feedings. It's a very hard line to walk, especially when you care as much about him as you clearly do.
Try decreasing the size of the mix that you feed and try getting him to eat some plain kibble from your hand between meals.
How often do you feed him this mix, and how often do you give him his prednisolone? What is the dose of the pred, and what it its strength (in mg per ml) ? That info will be right on the bottle.
Jeff
--- In ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com, "KaRayZee" <krazy_for_k9s@...> wrote:
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> I have been hand feeding Otter around the clock for the last few days, he gets a mix of crumbed ferret foods, baby food chicken or turkey and A/D, he eats it with GUSTO, off the spoon and down the hatch. I'm worried that he now won't eat his food in the kibble shape. I have offered him his kibbles but all he wants to eat is the gruel mix. I'm worried that his blood sugar level will crash if I let him get "hungry" enough to eat on his own. I'm not sure what to do, keep hand feeding him?
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> Whats the difference between prednisone and prednisolone? I was told not to give him anything with alcohol in it.
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