>//Answer// Yep.  Some folks who've been on the ferret "merry-go-round"
>for a long time and have had the rotten luck to have paid thousands of
>dollars to fatten the pockets of veterinarians (curative surgery
>excisions to whack away at cancers) in the mostly hopeless and futile
>effort to "cure" their beloved ferret, are at last questioning the "good
>sense" of buying a commercial grade ferret.
 
Boy, I'd like to know what vets YOU know.  I'm training to become a vet
tech and working in a clinic that happens to see ferrets.  Vet techs are
not paid well at all and in my 31 years of life (much of it spent around
vets) I've never met a "filthy rich" vet.  Some of the specialist do much
better financially than the general practice vets but I think you're
confusing human medicine with animal medicine, either that or the area
where you live has a very different economic structure than my area.  We
don't get the big $$ from insurance companies and drug companies the way
that many human doctors do.  Ferrets are beautiful, medically sensitive
creatures and their care be it from the perspective of vet or owner can
be challenging and frustrating.  Hopefully as we learn more and their
needs are better understood by more and more vets across the board their
care will not only be better but be more financially affordable.
 
[IA]
[Posted in FML issue 3859]