>>>Vegetable oils are great for helping hairball & partial blockage
>>>situations
 
>>Vegetable oils are digestible and not much use as a laxative it is
>>mineral type oils that should be used as laxatives.  Chris.
 
>Please be cautious with mineral oil.  As it is tasteless, it is very
>easily aspirated into the lungs.
>
>cb
 
Sometimes mineral oil can cause cramping.  It can be used as a last ditch
thing sometimes when vet says it's fine to try, but petroleum jelly is
kinder.
 
As far as i know, Chris is completely correct that veg oils don't help
with furballs; don't know how that idea started years ago (and it doesn't
matter), but start it did...
 
Wow!  Top-notch post on Brewer's Yeast, chromium, and avoiding same with
insulinoma, Debi!  Talk about a well-written and concise post!  That one
deserves repeating elsewhere.  (I sure hope that those who use it ask your
permission first, and do hope that it shows up elsewhere.)
 
At 3:04 AM -0500 11/20/01, Automatic digest processor wrote:
>Thursday 11/15 and are post numbers 8717, 98726, and 8728
 
I expect that most folks figured out that the "9" was just a typo
from ham-handed typing, but just in case...  Ah, maladroit me...
 
At 3:04 AM -0500 11/20/01, Automatic digest processor wrote:
Because I have a Pitbull, I constantly get those "Oh, she must be mean"
comments.
 
We don't have non-ferrets, but this brought to mind something you folks
don't know, yet, for the most part.  Early next year the Readers' Digest
will have a short (very-short-very-basic unless writer was afterward asked
to expand upon it) piece on ferrets.  That's marvelous because it reaches
so many people who otherwise would not hear any facts on ferrets and the
version I saw dispelled a rumor of false rumors.  The writer is someone
who has a misunderstood breed of dog so she knows what it is like to have
folks judge by rumor and emotion rather than by facts; she is very sweet
person.  I have not seen the final version so don't know what the final
form was like, but know that she requested corrections to the first draft
and said that those had been used.  It will appear in the Jan, Feb, or
March issue, and you will recognize one name, and a partial pseudonym for
another (done due a big-frog-in-a-small-pond who likes to cause trouble
for others so the ferret person was careful).  Look for the issue; it
could be the beginning of an important popular press trend, so it's a
helpful stepping-off point.
 
--Sukie (who still can't figure out why only one natural hair-color
(blonde) that is not terribly unusual in adults is too often assumed to
have-to-be from dye in adults when no others are... :-) Hey, it's a
distraction and right now a distraction has its merits. ;-) :-D )
[Posted in FML issue 3608]