>We just put the male of the pair that brought in the ECE to sleep.
>I am so broken-hearted and so are my volunteers. He was doing so well

Did your vet bother to do any test on the ferret like a fecal excaime
like take samples of his poop and was it neon green and smelly, Reason
I'm asking is from what all your saying here about him is sounds alot
like a stress issue. not E.C.E... Im sorry but my ol vet pulled that
On my shelter saying we had an E.C.E outbreak and shut my shelter down
fast, my foster parents called me crying telling me what happened and
I said no way we had it I knew better and asked them if the vet drs
did tests and feceal excaims they told me no they didnt even touch the
ferrets the dr just looked at him and said we had it,, the nest day I
took the 2 sickest ferrets of the foster parents and 2 of my sickest
ferets and went to a different our back up vet and our first vet is
supose more experence then the back up vet, but anyways after takeing
poos samples and did blood work and all and the were sent to lab and we
found out we had an outbreak of the flu,, the foster parents were sick
with the flu just a couple weeks befor the ferrets got sick and I even
had the flu. That was in march of this year I belive,, I would get a
2nd opion befor you go and have another ferret put down over black
poop, he could have been stressed out from shelter shock or something
but im sorry that dont sound like E.C.E.. we fired our first vet over
this,, you can not go by thinking that what somthing is without
testing, blood work or something .. Not Looks.. .

Susan - director of the Arkansas Ferret Hotline for Hospice and Sp
Needs Ferrets.. AND still cant spill worth a crap but ya got my point...

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