Lorraine Tremblay wrote:
>What was the result of the discussion thread on a FAQ devoted to biting?
 
Regina Harrison <[log in to unmask]> is working on one, carefully worded so
it doesn't give the wrong impression to non-ferret folks.  It's a slow
process.
 
Chris Clark wrote:
>I'm keeping a close eye on my ferrets for now, but I have recently found a
>pencil missing an eraser and what look like chew marks.
 
Large doses of cat hairball preventative (Petromalt, Laxatone, etc.) can
help ferrets pass fairly small foreign bodies.  An inch or so two or three
times a day may give them soft stools, but it should also "lube them up" (as
someone put it in a recent FML) and perhaps let the eraser through.  If it
doesn't work within two or three days, or if the ferret stops eating or
looks unhappy, see a vet.
 
Melanie Hough wrote:
>I picked him up and he started pawing at his mouth and drooling all over
>himself.  I gave him some ferretone and he licked it, then I gave him a
>piece of food.  He started to chew it and just fell over on his side.  It
>looked like he was dead but he was still breathing.  After a couple of
>seconds he was fine and went to the bowl and ate like crazy.
 
I'm not a vet, but these are classic signs of low blood sugar, whether it's
caused by insulinoma or not.  I have seen such seizures once in an apparently
healthy ferret who must have just "forgotten" to eat for a little too long.
She's never shown the signs again.
 
Joseph Roche wrote:
>He is a beautiful brown sable color.  However, over the past couple of
>weeks the fur on the top of his head has become lighter in color, almost as
>if he was going gray!
 
He's growing in his winter coat.  Many ferrets get significantly lighter in
the fall coat change, then darker again in the spring.  My Pyxxel has a
half-white face from November to April, and a full black mask with little
white spots the rest of the year.
 
Cheers,
 
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[Posted in FML issue 2109]