Hi all!
 
Like I said, I'm off my soapbox and no one can convince me to get back on
(yet!!!).
 
Thanks to everyone who stopped by our table this weekend at the ferret show
in Annapolis!!!  I really appreciated all the good words and comments
towards our organization!!!!  We took in a pretty good bit of money to cover
some recent large vet bills, and every little bit helps!!!
 
In case anyone is wondering, while the debate was raging, I was also doing
other stuff.  For instance, my Misha ferret (the young and dumb beautiful
boy) donated blood for the third time to save another ferret!!!  This time
it was a gorgeous little silver mitt female suffering from flea anemia!
When I saw her after the transfusion, she was still so pale I could detect
very little color in her gums.  But she went home the next day, according to
the vet and was doing very well.  Good luck, little girl!
 
On a bad note, one of our rescues that I had to personally nurse back to
health last year, was turned back into the rescue after his owner said he
couldn't afford to take it to the vet.  When I saw him, he weighed about 1
1/2 lbs and had two masses in his abdomen, right around the base of the
penis.  I rushed the little guy to the vet and it turns out one of the
masses was his BLADDER.  A cyst in his abdomen had formed, abcessed and then
got infected, became invasive to his bladder & prostate and completely
surrounded his urethra until he was unable to pee!  When we expressed his
urine, it was a dark brown and very cloudy.  After a week of treatment, and
some experimental operation (a Marsupial procedure) he still was not doing
well, and we had to put him down.  I beg each and every person out there,
before you get another animal, please take into mind how much it may cost to
treat them!!!  This little guy may have survived if he had gotten treatment
earlier!!!  The rescue put $400.00 into him (the rest the vet clinic did not
charge, and $165.00 of that was the emergency vet).  I beg everyone to if
they are ever unsure of whether to take an animal to the vet or wait, to err
on the side of the animal!!!!!!
 
Thanks
 
Lisa
[Posted in FML issue 1700]