This is from another book: 'What's a Ferret' by Sid Yost, Brad Limberg,
with Dick Kimbrough. copyright 1977. These gentleman started Colorado
Ferrets, inc. the 'nation's largest supplier of baby ferrets' in the
early 1970's, this is where my first ferret came from. Quite a few
years before Marshall Farms started. Again, like I mentioned in my
last post, they talk about footrot, the common cold, fleas, ear mites.
Nothing about anemia in un-spayed ferrets. It just says 'the female
will come into heat and grow so nervous and high strung that her health
will be harmed.' Yikes! Must be why my first ferret, Louise, died of
aplastic-anemia, because I did NOT get her spayed in time. Tried to
breed her twice, but resulted in no babies. My manger at the pet store
where I worked, offered to pay me for a supply of baby ferrets!

And it says:
'Though ferrets are quite healthy, they may contact the following
diseases: canine distemper, feline distemper, human, bovine, and avian
tuberculosis, hem-strepts, toxoplasmosis, some human strains of
influenza, pseudocyesis, pyometra mastitis, and autoimmine-hemolytic
anemias.'

Hmmm, maybe Sukie can enlighten me/us on some of those.... what they
are...and even if they exist anymore...:) Some of course I've heard of,
but.... Hem-strepts? Pseudocyesis? Again though, no mention of any kind
of cancers..... Lymphoma, Adrenal, etc.

Joan and the 7 Fuzzies

[Posted in FML 6905]