One trick for keeping a ferret (or other animal) from licking and
chewing at the dressings and surgical site is to powder some
metronidazole, and mix it into triple-antibiotic ointment. It is
REALLY bitter (as you know metronidazole is), so they won't lick or
chew it, and if they do get some in their mouth, hey it's antibiotics!

Kevin Farlee

[Posted in FML 6869]