To Wes Breazeale:
 
>I have three ferrets, and while they all seem to have very healthy stool
>most of the time, occasionally one of them seems to have this very soft,
>very green stool which is pretty gross, but it doesn't seem to slow her
>down any.  Other than that stool problem, she seems very healthy and happy.
 
        The occasional loose or greenish stool isn't really anything to worry
about.  Most ferrets occaisonally come across something that they ingest that
increases the transit time and the stool comes out before it has time to be
completely processed.  This is normal in ferrets.
 
        What we worry about is repeated greenish diarrhea, which is a problem.
 
       Bruce Williams, DVM                 Department of Veterinary Pathology
       [log in to unmask]         Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
       (202) 782-2600/2602                 Washington, D.C.  20306-6000
[Posted in FML issue 1014]