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Date: | Sun, 8 Feb 1998 17:19:48 -0800 |
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A week and a half ago I took my ferrets to the vet for a routine shots and
check up visit - all went well, they charmed people in the waiting room and
made the rather stern vet giggle with lickings. Our youngest, Fathead,
received a half of a distemper shot (the vet only had one to split between
them, but he said that it should be sufficient, being a live culture) and a
rabies shot. Fathead is only 7 months or so, about 2.5 lbs and very
energetic. Why I'm posting is that in the past 3 days or so about half the
fur on his back and belly has fallen out. He hasn't been especially
stressed, hasn't had food changes, the weather has been pretty constant - I
know that baldness can be a sign of adrenal disease, but 3 days seems kinda
drastic. We did switch to wood pellet litter instead of alfalfa a few weeks
ago - wouldn't an allergy have shown up earlier? There are shorter dark
hairs under the (mostly gone) white fluffy hairs and longer darker guard
hairs - I don't remember if they were always there or if they might be a new
coat coming in very suddenly. I gave him his first bath in quite awhile
today with an itch relief shampoo and think I saw pink (but not raw) spots
under what fur is left. He did have one flea, but he's never reacted to
them so strongly before, and I think that it just came in on the cat. He
seems pretty healthy otherwise, alert and bouncy. Has anyone seen this
sudden of a hair loss?
[Posted in FML issue 2212]
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