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Hello ferret people!
We refer to the scary death-like sleep as SND here. Everytime one of them
gets me, I swear I won't fall for it again, but another one got me last
month. Our club was doing the local pet expo. I took one of my big hobs
on Saturday to show off and have fun with. This particular hob had been
treated to his first jill 4 days before (we're all excited about him being
a daddy :) and during the day at the pet expo, I noticed he was leaking a
bit of pus and blood from his 'belly button'. I freaked out, of course,
but luckily there was a vet passing by who said it wasn't uncommon after
breeding, just clean him up and keep an eye on it. We put him on a low
dose of amoxycillian until he could see his regular vet on Monday, but I
still continued to worry. Kazander acted fine, was eating and pooping
and willing to still try to show any girls what a great boy he was.
Sunday morning, still worried about him, I pulled him out of his cage to
check, and he was limp and really felt kinda cold. This is a hob who wakes
up and paces as soon as he hears anyone in the ferret room. I freaked.
"Chuck!" I cried out. As Chuck raced over, Kazander finally rolled his
head up, opened one eye and looked at me like I was crazy, crying like I
was. He was fine, the vet said he had just gotten irritated from overuse
and he was just sleeping so heavily from the excitement of the show the
day before. I swear that's the last time they will get me like that!
Sherry and her Merry Mob
[Posted in FML issue 2995]
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