[Sent yesterday, never received, resent today.  BIG]
 
Fritter: I don't know if they still are made, but some non- alcoholic
wines used to have fluted plastic caps that slid over the screw on bottle
caps.  These were then covered with foil to look like a cork was there.
The ferrets LOVED those for ferret-hockey, but Fritter found a new use.
She would turn them open side up and turd in them -- yes, her own little
toilet.  Cleaning up after Fritter meant three things:
 
1. Drinking a lot of non-alcoholic wine to have more of the caps.
2. Picking up the very neatly filled caps and tossing.
3. Cleaning up the one little dot where she would blot her bum
   afterwards.
 
Before treating for the bedbugs I think that you should contact one of
the poison control centers to learn how to do it safely:
 
ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center's emergency hotline at (888) 426-4435
Angell Memorial Animal Medical Center Pet Poison Hotline
1-877-2ANGELL (1-877-226-4355)
 
The charge is per case at each so keep the case identification if more
things have to be done to get rid of the bedbugs.
 
Diazoxide dosing from _Essentials of Ferrets, a Guide for Practioners_:
5-30 mg/kg q 12h PO
Prednisolone:
0.10-2.5 mg/kg q 12-24h PO
 
From the second edition of _Ferrets, Rabbits and Rodents, Clinical
Medicine and Surgery_:
Diazoxide:
10-20 mg/kg PO q 12h
Prednisolone:
0.5-2.0 mg/kg PO q 12
 
We prefer the first resource usually for meds.
 
BTW, Prednisolone is usually these days treated as a "what the individual
will tolerate" med.  BTW, always give it with food.  Some vets split it
up into dosing three times a day instead of two.
 
-- Sukie (not a vet)
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[Posted in FML issue 5194]