For ticks Frontline is often the best. Some of the most helpful past posts in the FHL archives on parasites are from AFERRETVET and a number of those have been carried by me to the FML as JM from FHL posts so can be found in the FML Archives by using that to help with the search and noting that the address posted from contains sukie. BTW: Here is info for everyone on how to use some archives for those for whom the info on the pages is not enough: http://www.smartgroups.com/message/viewdiscussion.cfm? gid=1423922&messageid=18170 Ironically, I used a tick info search in the following post when I told about using archives: http://listserv.cuny.edu/Scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0604&L=FERRET-SEARCH&P=R26476 On garlic being a lose and posing a health concern: http://listserv.cuny.edu/Scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0606&L=FERRET-SEARCH&P=R11161 http://listserv.cuny.edu/Scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0506&L=FERRET-SEARCH&P=R8121 (Notice that the FHL archives moved but it may forward, and if it doesn't then just use the archive addy in my sig lines; the number and letter ID of the post will be valid.) http://listserv.cuny.edu/Scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0506&L=FERRET-SEARCH&P=R3349 http://listserv.cuny.edu/Scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0505&L=FERRET-SEARCH&P=R4041 an assortment of parasite info http://listserv.cuny.edu/Scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0504&L=FERRET-SEARCH&P=R4394 If the dog isn't going outdoors then a female could have gorged on someone in the earlier household, then dropped off and laid eggs in a crack in the wood in the household. General tick info: http://listserv.cuny.edu/Scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0504&L=FERRET-SEARCH&P=R4394 How deer erroneously get a bad rap: http://listserv.cuny.edu/Scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0605&L=FERRET-SEARCH&P=R6969 How misreading info about a type of tick caused a false impression among some: http://listserv.cuny.edu/Scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0504&L=FERRET-SEARCH&P=R1130 Anyway, you get the idea: there is a lot of info which can be easily gotten. -- Sukie (not a vet, and not speaking for any of the below in my private posts) Recommended health resources to help ferrets and the people who love them: Ferret Health List http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/ferrethealth FHL Archives http://ferrethealth.org/archive/ AFIP Ferret Pathology http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html Miamiferrets http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/ International Ferret Congress Critical References http://www.ferretcongress.org [Posted in FML issue 5358]
