>Recently, my sable, Sergeant has gone through really vicious bouts of
>lethargy.  It comes and goes.  He usually experiences it right after I wake
>him up.  I don't remember him acting this way before.  But, sometimes, but
>not all the time, when I wake him up, he stumbles back to his belly and
>seems "out of it".  He will not move and salivates heavily.  This usually
>lasts about 15 min.  then he snaps out of it and is back to his usual self.
 
Take Sergeant to the vet and have the vet run a fasting blood glucose test.
The symptoms that you are describing are very possibly a result of
insulinoma.  To learn more about insulinoma, send an e-mail message to
<[log in to unmask]> with the message GET INSULIN DISEASE FERRET in
the body of the message.  Do not add a signature or any other words to the
message.
 
Please let me know if I can help in any other way,
Gina the Monkeywrangler
and the Chimps of Mayhem:  Paleface (Bean), Gunnar the Red (Goose), Daniel
Spikey Tiger (Spike), Harriet (Hawwiet) and Wienerbutt (Weenie)
[Posted in FML issue 1787]