>From:    "DA Boom Boom Boomer! :)" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: ferretone and vet visits
>...shove a needle between his shoulders.
 
My vet won't give the distemper or rabies shot at the neck/shoulder.  It is
very tough skin there.  He gives it on the flank (hip area) with a thinner
gauge needle.  Discuss with your vet.
 
>From:    "Melissa A. Boulineau" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Totally Ferret Food & other stuff
>...my Katana has a blue tattoo on her right ear, from reading FAQ's I
>assumed that she was a MF ferret (I got her from a previous owner), but,
>when I took her to the vet today, (she needed her yearly vaccines), the Vet
>told me the tattoo meant that she had been spayed?!
 
1.  Gina has two blue dots in one ear.  Her previous owners told me they
personally picked her out at the breeder's in Kentucky.  (MF is in New
York.)
 
2.  Chipper has no tattoos.  I hounded her previous owners to tell me what
pet store she was purchased from, because I wanted to be reimbursed the cost
of having her spayed when she was 8.5 months old.  The pet store employee
said "...oh yeah, that whole batch of kits in Nov 94 from the breeder in
_____, North Carolina...we had problems with (males and females unaltered)."
 
Bottom line, IMHO: Some breeders mark like MF to pass off the fert as MF,
some breeders don't mark at all, some mark the same, some people lie.
 
Shari Gunter
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[Posted in FML issue 1825]