This weekend I took my babies to the park for about an hour. After their wild
adventure I always take them and their pet taxi straight to the bathroom and
throw them straight into the bath tub. I also clean out their pet taxi with
Mr. Clean and Lysol, and I wash their blankets and vacuum the carpet in my
bedroom where they stay most of the time. After I take them to the park and
give them a bath I clean their ears. I cleaned one's ears with a Q-tip as usual
and found extremely tiny clear-white bugs crawling on the Q-tip. They had some
horizontal brown stipes or it could have just been segments. Are these what ear
mites look like? Can people get ear mites from their ferrets? Also, I read
through the Ferret FAQ, and I noticed that in one place it said to use 1mg/kg
Ivermectin and split that between two ears but in another place to split
.5mg/kg between two ears. I was wondering which one is more accurate. I'm
trying to get a hold of a vet now so I can get them started on some ear mite
medicine. PLEASE check your ferrets for ear mites! I just about had a heart
attack when I saw those nasty little bugs and knew they were crawling around in
my baby's ears. I was also wondering if cleaning the ears with hydrogen
peroxide, vasoline, or whatever can actually cause the mites to go further down
into the ear canal.
                                                 Anon
 
[Posted in FML issue 0935]