Everyone should keep the ASPA Pet Poison Control addy in their bookmarked addresses: http://www.aspca.org/Home/Pet-care/poison-control Re: plants http://www.aspca.org/pet-care/poison-control/plants/ Re: common foods that will poison your ferret, cat, and dog (and BTW a British study warns against currants along with the grapes and raisins which were the focus of a past Ferrets Magazine article by two vets telling how they treated ferrets with acute kidney failure due to raisins): http://www.aspca.org/pet-care/poison-control/people-foods.aspx Home safety: http://www.aspca.org/Pet-care/poison-control/a-poison-safe-home Poisoning Prevention: http://www.aspca.org/Fight-Animal-Cruelty/top-10-tips-to-prevent What to do: <http://www.aspca.org/Pet-care/poison-control/what-to-do-if-your-pet-is-poisoned> FAQ: http://www.aspca.org/Pet-care/poison-control/animal-poison-control-faq Some ferret specific search results though if something is toxic for cats and/or dogs then treat it as potentially toxic for ferrets because so very often that has been the case. Managing Ferret Toxicoses EXOTIC DVM VOLUME 2.4. 2000 23. Jill A. Richardson, DVM, Dipl ACFE. ASPCA National Animal Poison. Control Center. 1717 South Philo Road Suite 36 ... http://www.aspcapro.org/mydocuments/apcc_ferret.pdf Ibuprofen Ingestion in Ferrets: 43 Cases (January 1996 - March 2000) Patients: Records of 43 cases of ibuprofen ingestion in ferrets that were reported ... ibuprofen toxicosis in the ferret includes stabilization, gastrointestinal ... http://www.aspcapro.org/mydocuments/b-veccs_jan01.pdf Ibuprofen toxicosis in dogs, cats, and ferrets 580. JULY 2004 Veterinary Medicine. Toxicology Brief managing common poisonings in companion animals. Ibuprofen toxicosis in dogs, cats, and ferrets ... http://www.aspcapro.org/mydocuments/t-toxbrief_0704.pdf Sukie (not a vet) Ferrets make the world a game. Recommended ferret health links: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/ http://ferrethealth.org/archive/ http://www.miamiferret.org/ http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/ http://www.ferretcongress.org/ http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html all ferret topics: http://listserv.ferretmailinglist.org/archives/ferret-search.html "All hail the procrastinators for they shall rule the world tomorrow." (2010, Steve Crandall) A nation is as free as the least within it. [Posted in FML 7727]
