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>stool samples they kindly provided her ;-> and says that they have Giardia.
>We have some medication to take care of this (at least temporarily, Dr.
>Bishop says that since we take them outdoors regularly it will likely return
>at some point)
My vet was recently fooled into diagnosing some normal parasites in my
ferrets poop as giardia, and we began testing all of my ferrets, as I
understand this can be a nasty problem to eliminate. They all showed the
same thing...what she thought was giardia. We sent a sample to the lab
(after she first "verified" that the sample we sent contained giardia). The
lab report came back saying that it was *not* giardia, so you may want to
have Dr Bishop send a sample to the lab to verify what she saw. (By the
way, Dr. Bishop is an *excellent* ferret vet! But perhaps she too could be
fooled?!)
Sandi
Best Little Rabbit, Rodent & Ferret House
Seattle, WA
[Posted in FML issue 2165]
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