>stool samples they kindly provided her ;-> and says that they have Giardia.
>We have some medication to take care of this (at least temporarily, Dr.
>Bishop says that since we take them outdoors regularly it will likely return
>at some point)
 
My vet was recently fooled into diagnosing some normal parasites in my
ferrets poop as giardia, and we began testing all of my ferrets, as I
understand this can be a nasty problem to eliminate.  They all showed the
same thing...what she thought was giardia.  We sent a sample to the lab
(after she first "verified" that the sample we sent contained giardia).  The
lab report came back saying that it was *not* giardia, so you may want to
have Dr Bishop send a sample to the lab to verify what she saw.  (By the
way, Dr. Bishop is an *excellent* ferret vet!  But perhaps she too could be
fooled?!)
 
Sandi
Best  Little Rabbit, Rodent & Ferret House
Seattle, WA
[Posted in FML issue 2165]