>Last question: how do you keep them from tearing out their stitches?  This
>vet said that collars don't work well on ferrets.  Do they?????
 
Been through lots of ferret surgeries and I have never experienced a single
ferret that paid any attention to their stitches.  That doesn't mean that
Fang won't, or others haven't, but I'd only worry about it if he does.
 
I saw them put an elizabethan (sp?) collar on a ferret on Emergency Vets
once, and the ferret didn't seem to initially mind, but I don't know how
long he put up with it.
 
For the ferrets,
Mike
 
* Michael F. Janke, [log in to unmask]
* Secretary, South Florida Ferret Club & Rescue
* A 501(c)3 not-for-profit corporation
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* Shelter web site:  http://www.miamiferret.org
* Adrenal/Insulinoma web site: http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc
[Posted in FML issue 2963]