From:
Sukie Crandall
Date: 2011-10-31 15:13:55 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] Re: help please
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
To help you find a vet:
In
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/
go to the Files section (and notice that the sections of the FHL and the separate archives of the FHL are very, very helpful)
and from the Files section you will then link to the
FHL Vets List
If that does not show any vets recommended by list members in your area then go to Ferret Universe by using Google.com
Within FHL posts people can recommend vets as long as they don't simultaneously discuss a case involving that vet or hospital. Vets asked for that rule very long ago (the FHL is over 10 years old and past posts from all three of its locations through the years are in the wonderful and easily used archives) for multiple reasons. One of the excellent reasons for the rule is that commenting vets with great advice feel freer to speak if they don't know which vet is involved in treatment. Another is that the FHL once way back when had two list members -- who were wrong a lot more often than they were right -- who actually looked up and harassed vets with whom they disagreed. Some peopleĀ
right?
If you happen to be in NJ we use Doctors Joe Martins and Kim Somjen at the Belle Mead Animal Hospital and I can ensure you that with 3 decades of ferrets in the family we do tend to be careful about the quality and knowledge of the vets we use.
http://www.bellemeadanimalhospital.com/
Ferrets are costly for vet care no matter where a person lives though some regions are more so due to things like higher property costs, higher taxes, and higher employment costs adding on to the other normal running costs. Of course, people in such areas already know that. Needing to save ahead to afford vet care, and to be careful to not have more ferrets than can be afforded under normal circumstances for one's current life are unavoidable parts of having ferrets in one's family and of not becoming a hoarder.
Obviously, veterinary care is one of the absolutely most basic essentials for ferrets, and knowledgeable is best, followed by someone willing to learn.
Many people travel for vet care (including us) since most vets never have studied ferrets and many lack the time to learn another species. The number of vets who know or try is steadily increasing, though. That has been the case for some time.
Having more vet texts out there helps hugely, too. (BTW, the third edition of _Ferrets, Rabbits, and Rodents, clinical medicine and surgery_ is running a little later than expected for publication release, and we are looking forward to the copy I ordered. Somehow I suspect that fewer cat and dog owners read their vet texts than ferret owners, since many ferret owners seem to buy ferret vets texts, sometimes new, sometimes the last editions on sale in places like the publishing houses or Amazon.)
Hope I wrote this clearly enough. I am down sick with bronchitis and one of the three meds makes me very unpleasantly dizzy, so I quadruple checked this post.
Sukie (not a vet)
Recommended ferret health links:
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/
http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html
http://www.miamiferret.org/
http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/
http://www.ferretcongress.org/
http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml
http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html
all ferret topics:
http://listserv.ferretmailinglist.org/archives/ferret-search.html
"All hail the procrastinators for they shall rule the world tomorrow."
(2010, Steve Crandall)
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