Hello folks.
 
I didn't receive any responses about my query on Sadie so I am writing to
try again.
 
Sadie is about 4 yr. old and is spayed.  She has never been sick for the 2
plus years that we have had her and now she is barfing about every 3 days or
so.  She is eating (IAMS kitten), drinking, pooping, and playing as usual
but over the last 2 or 3 weeks she has barfed 4 or so times.  Maybe I should
add that I feel that she pees and poops more than any of them, and has since
the day we got her.  I clean her pan 2 times a day while I clean the others
only once a day, and her poopie smell whereas everyone else's doesn't.  By
the way, all ferrets do get at least 4 hours of out time per day.  I did
rule out a blockage for various reasons but one day I found a fairly large
fur ball on the floor in their room.  It is difficult to say who did it with
9 ferrets but because of Sadies record these few weeks, I surmised that she
did it.  This fur ball was odd because all the other barf was just soaked
food but this was just a ball of fur (actually, it was 2 joined together)
with nothing mixed in with it.  I have given her (as well as the rest of the
gang) petromalt a few times now but that hasn't seemed to help.  Could it
still be a hairball or could she be getting ulcers.  I guess I am paranoid
about ulcers after what I went through with Snoopy and I just don't want the
same end for Sadie.  Any ideas would be welcome.
 
Thanks a million.
 
Take care.
Tryntje Miller.
[Posted in FML issue 2358]