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>Sent 3 ferrets to the vet yesterday.  One for her Lupron injection, Cody
>for dark puddle poop & Charlie for his yellow seedy poop.  Charlie &
>Cody both had fecals done & the results was that they both have
>Clostridium.  Thinking about this they all have had this before but I
>just never thought of it.  Naturally if the 2 tested have it, the other
>23 have it.
 
Dear Y:
 
I'm not a fan of diagnosing Clostridium in feces.  Robust bacilli are
always present in ferret feces, and there is no way to tell if they are
pathogenic Clostridium or not.  It is a common and valid test in birds,
but not really in ferrets.
 
Add this to the fact that clostridiosis is a rare disease in ferrets
(once diagnosed in a group of blackfooted ferrets as the cause of gastric
bloat), and I have to be a bit circumspect about this diagnosis.
 
With kidnest regards,
Bruce Williams, DVM
[Posted in FML issue 4396]