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Date: | Mon, 23 Apr 2001 01:06:18 -0400 |
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Deafness can be a difficult thing to prove in ferrets - you don't mention
what color Feisty is - deafness is most commonly seen in albino or color
diluted varieties.
Now the blindness is something different entirely. Cataracts present as
a white opacity within the pupil, not a milky film over the eye. A milky
film over the eye is more suggestive of either a corneal problem,
inflammation within the eyeball, or perhaps glaucoma. Unfortunately,
without more information in the form of a more complete description of
what you are seeing, or better yet, a photograph showing the eye's close
up, I may not be able to shed a lot more light on this problem. However,
another possibility is that the milky film is not the problem, but that
there may be retinal degeneration, a fairly common finding in older
ferrets.
With kindest regards,
Bruce H. Williams, DVM, DACVP
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[Posted in FML issue 3396]
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