Hi everyone,
 
I have a strange question for you.  Has anyone ever had a ferret that seems
to hiccup?  Both my two in the last two days at different times seem to have
the hiccups.  They are otherwise fine.  Eating, going to the bathroom etc.
like normal.  Its not all the time just one each of them.  Talli is a 3 year
(approx.) female, California rescue ferret.  Winston is a 2year old ferret
that I have had for those two years.
 
Also has anyone else noticed that there seems to be two different styles of
ferret body.  One is long and slender, with a large hump walk.  The other is
short and chubby with a small hump walk I have one of each of my own and my
mom has one of each also.  Is this from different breeders or what?  Any one
with a clue or an opinion would be apprecieated.
 
Also I would like to thank everyone who replied to my question about boric
acid.  I tried it and kept them out of the kitchen for a couple of day and
then they kept climbing the gate and gettin in anyways so I let them in and
they have no interest in it being in the cracks.  That was a couple of weeks
ago and it hasn't bothered them.
 
My condolances to everyone who has lost a critter. We lost one of ours (my
brothers but him and his ferrets were living with me at the time)  he
basically bled to death because the vet that they took him to at first when
they first realized that he was sick gave them some medicine,(sorry I don't
know what it was) and told them to go home with him.  All this time he was
going to the bathroom black which i now know was blood.  As soon as I got
home I sent them 40 miles away to a vet hospital that was reccomed to me for
ferrets and when they got there they were told that he had lost most of his
blood and that it was from his intestines exploding.  We don't know what
caused it.  It may have been caused by The Green Slime disease which is
called ECE Ibelieve.  All of my ferrets had it but he is the only one that
had other things happen a while after the symptons were gone.
 
Well thanks for letting me ramble, I feel better already.  Sorry it was so
long.
 
Steph (human age 25)
Winston (so patient he must be a ferret fuzzy saint in disquise)
Talli (I'm so hyper I never stop for anything including walls, couch edges
etc.)
[Posted in FML issue 1345]