Hi, I used to be on FML and am not sure what happened, however I no longer
recieve news letters - anyway I have a problem that I need some help and
hopign you can help me.
 
Here is the problem.  My roomate has one ferret and I have three.  Her male
and my middle ferret (female) are littermates.  Those two are three and a
half.  All of his life, he has had lose stool and slime sometimes.  Always
very laid back and mellow, but healthy.  Assuming not ECE or anythign
contagious for that matter because he has lived iwth my ferrets for the
past three years and mine have never gotten his symptoms.  Anyway, this
summer, he is at her house separated from my three who he lives with only
durin the school year - he is always alone over the summers.  However this
summer he got really skinny and his poop stinks.  The vet wouldn't give him
his shots saying he is too skinny but gave her no help other that told her
to fatten him up -- easier said than done.  He is still mellow as usual,
but I personalkly think, a little more so.  He eats and drinks and poops,
but it stinks and is mush, but not liquid, just doesn't hold shape.  He
lives in a basement tupe setting near a rat and birds and the laundry
machines.  She actually just told me this mintue that the vet tested his
stool and he does not have coccidia and put him on flagyl to try to get
rid of the meds.  She also told me that he has lost his appetite but he
is not eating the soft ferret food.  Does anyone have an ideas of what can
be wrong with him.  No obvious outward signs of adrenal or insolomnia.  She
does not have a lot of money to get lots of tests done so if it can be
narrowed down hopefully she can afford soemthing.  I am going to try to
convince her to take him to my ferret specialist, but I am not sure if she
can afford that so andy help at all, please pass it on.
 
Thanks so much,
Amy (trying to help diefenbaker)
[Posted in FML issue 3148]