This may have been dealt with: but humor me, please.  Winston
vomitted two nights in a row.  We've been watching him pretty closely,
and the vomitting seems to have abated: but he's got really nasty
diarrhea.  Kind of greenish and slimy, and stinky.  With mucous around
the edges, which he's had for about four days.  It's pretty frequent: he
doesn't even bother looking for a magazine anymore.
        We took him to the vet, who had him all day, and she took x-rays
and managed to determine that there isn't anything hard obstructing his
intestines.  Options seem to be that Winston has (a) some kind of
bacterial growth; (b) some kind of
blockage, which might be something soft (cotton or a hairball, which
wouldn't show well on an x-ray); (c) nonspecific intestinal problem
(kind of vet-language for, "He's got diarrhea," I think).  Anyway, the
specifics are: a ferret of indeterminate age (he was a stray: let's guess
around four) with bad diarrhea, entire loss of appetite (except for
nutrical and linatone, which we have limited), and extreme lethargy.  Any
ideas?  Especially about getting him to eat?  I lost my duck soup recipe
in the last Hard Disk Purge, and would like another copy.  Please rally
'round, those of you who know about this kind of thing: we're looking at
exploratory surgery if we can't figure this thing out, and we really
can't afford it.  Many thanks to all, and may all your wool socks turn up
someday.
[Posted in FML issue 0989]