To Mary from Peoria:
 
>Both of these ferrets have been to the doctor about the hair loss.  He said
>if it was adrenal, it would probibly have started at the base of the tail
>and then forward from that.
 
One thing I have learned over the years is that a lot of animals don't read
either the books, or the FML.  Look at the pattern of the hair loss, not the
pattern of development.
 
If there is a question, the adrenal panel from UT may help, but I think that
I would probably do the surgery, at least on the one with the profound
patchy hair loss.
 
Bruce Williams, DVM, DACVP              Chief Pathologist, AccuPath
Dept. of Veterinary Pathology               [log in to unmask]
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
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[Posted in FML issue 1696]