I am hoping to get some help from some of you with two different problems
we have:
 
1. Jeronimo:
 
- She has two golf-ball size lumps in her lower abdomen.  When I pick her
  up, they are quite obvious on either side.
 
- She has lost quite a bit of fur in the area where the lumps are.  The
  rest of her fur is very dull.
 
- She is 5 1/2 yrs old and is quite active and happy.  She doesn't appear
  to be suffering at all.
 
- The vet said it might be her spleen and she was going to look into
  whether ferrets can have their spleens removed.  I have not heard back
  from her (that was a couple of months ago).
 
- I am considering surgery, but I don't want to cause any problems
  unnecessarily--as I mentioned, she is happy and healthy otherwise.
 
Does anyone have any input?
 
2. Rockefeller:
 
- For at least a year now, Rocky has had no fur on her tail.  The rest
  of her coat is fine.
 
- I've tried bathing her tail with anti-bacterial soap twice a day for a
  month--she had black spots on it, and they seem to have disappeared
  almost completely.
 
- I've been giving her Ferretone every morning for the past few
  weeks-still no sign of fur!
 
Does anyone have any input?
 
Thanks!
 
Barb and Paul
and Ferrets:  Jeronimo, Rockefeller, Templeton, Einstein, Beauregarde,
and Shchmidtlappe.
With fond memories of:  Winchester, Huckleberry, Remmington, Napoleon,
Orbisson and Balderdash.
[Posted in FML issue 2273]