>Hi, just word from researching on the net and everything about pine or >cedar bedding. Pine and cedar bedding can be hazardous to your ferrets, >or other small animals. There is a natural oil or something in cedar or >pine that can cause respitory infections if the animals breath it in. Well, actually, cedar is bad and really needs to be avoided, but in general pine is not -- important note about that, though, some individuals do become allergic to pine (Have heard of this in ferrets, too.) and for them it can be very dangerous at times. Here is something that will help you: http://www.trifl.org/cedar.html "Respiratory toxicity of cedar and pine wood: A review of the biomedical literature from 1986 through 1995" Written by Jeff Johnston --- Apparently, reading some other posts (and having private requests), these sites-to-save are needed again: http://listserv.cuny.edu/archives/ferret-search.html http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ferret-Health-list http://www.ferretdoctor.com http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html http://www.ferret.net/medical/ http://www.trifl.org/medical.html http://home.att.net/~hhoefer/ http://www.lbah.com/Ferrets/insulinoma.htm http://www.ferretcentral.org http://www.geocities.com/wolfysluv/adv-straight.html http://www.napcc.aspca.org/ http://advancedhelp.org http://www.ferret.org/index.htm http://www.avecon.com/AveconADV.htm http://www.hiproanimalhealth.com/catalog/usa/index.htm http://www.graylab.ac.uk/omd/ http://www.peteducation.com/drugs_supplements.htm http://www.marvistavet.com/html/pharmacy_center.html http://www.petinsurance.com/ [Posted in FML issue 3577]
