True story
 
Our babies were diagnosed with pseudomonas about 3 years ago.  All
nineteen(at that time) of them!  I didn't know anything about this
bacteria then.  Every vet I talked to told me they didn't know how I was
going to get it cured because of them passing it back and fourth etc.....
 
Anyway, to make a long story shorter, a year later everyone still has
pseudomonus and we have one death to confirm this.  One vet has kept
telling us that he can't believe that they could still have this after
so long.
 
Meanwhile my husband has the same symptoms as the ferrets now!
He was doctored and doctored and doctored....
 
About 6 months later Richard finally asked the doctor if he could get the
same stuff as the ferrets.  He described the symptoms they had vs. what
he had, then he told the doctor they had pseudomonas.
 
The doctor prescribed cipro for my husband and the ferrets were on
baytril which our vet told us was animal cipro.
 
Then the doctor told Richard he had to get rid of our babies.  They were
going to kill him.
 
Richard told him then he guessed he'd die because he wasn't getting rid
of the babies.
 
He said, " I'll die before I get rid of my babies", and the doctor said,
"you just may".
 
He told me to talk sense into my husband since he had it worse than I
did I was supposed to be saying "you bet they go" but there was no way.
After the ferrets having it for 2 years and my husband having it for 8
months we FINALLY found the source and destroyed it.  It was an old
chicken coop that we had converted into the guinea pig house so they
could stay inside or go out into a safe yard.  ( It had air conditioning
and a heater and we played with them daily)  They just liked it better
than a cage in a house.
 
Sorry, I'm explaining this so I don't get flames for housing the guinea
pigs outside.  They were very safe, happy, sheltered and loved.  And at
one time we had 89!  Boy am I glad we finally got them all adopted out!
Boys on one side of the OH NO YOU DON'T fence and girls on the other LOL
 
Our doctor thought we were stupid, nuts, crazy...,and he was really mad
at us about this.
 
Maybe it does make us fanatics but oh well... I like being a fanatic then :}
 
Lois
Missing 8
Hugging 16
[Posted in FML issue 3906]