>>From: Kathie Hicks <[log in to unmask]>
>>
>>Why would a ferret get diabetes all of a sudden? Lilly has never been
>>on any kind of meds and hasn't had any surgeries. Please help.
>
> Kathie,
>
>Hi. I'm wondering the same thing. Our ferret, Squiggy, was diagnosed
>as a diabetic a few weeks ago. I haven't been able to find a whole lot
>of information on the subject. If anyone has some suggested reading, I
>would really appreciate the information.

I also had a ferret with diabetes several years ago. I know that
sometimes diabetes can occur after insulinoma surgery, but with Fritz
even this wasn't the case. He began to gain weight in March or April
2004 and just continued to get bigger and bigger. He was eventually
diagnosed with diabetes and put on insulin. It didn't matter much as he
was dead a few days later from what we discovered at necropsy to be
liver cancer, which had metastasized all over his body. We are still
not sure how the diabetes played into this whole thing.

There is probably some additional information in the Ferret Health List
archives at http://ferrethealth.org/archive.

Good luck.

Amy, Dave, Sarah & Paul (and their gaggle of giggling ferrets)
RIP Ian, Elektra, Claudia, Sidney, Max, Hannah & Fritz
Missing Tasha 

[Posted in FML 5749]