Hello Peoples & Dooks to the Fuzzies ~
 
I'm generally just a lurker here, but have a question.  I live in a small
(wee, tiny, nearly non-existant) town that only has a vet for 1/2 day
every two weeks.  By the occurance of a small miracle, I managed to
find him IN this week ... he does not, of course, know about ferrets.
He DID refer me to a vet about sixty miles away who does ferrets.  He
also got to chatting (lots of folks do that up here ... its the major
entertainment), and mentioned that he'd gotten a guest speaker on ferrets
at their symposium last year.  He did not attend, but said that this
woman ... Kathleen Mc(something) ... was successfully developing and
working with a NON-SURGICAL cure for adrenal problems.  Does anyone
know who she is, or anything about this?  I inherited a couple of ferrets
that were "loosing hair, but not adrenal" (A-hem ... sure) but are a
bit older and VERY tiny ... I'd like to spare them surgical risks if
possible ... especially since the one with the most obvious symptomology
is the more frail-seeming, and older, of the two.  Neither appears to be
suffering unduly, both eating, pooping, playing & lovingly, laughingly
bright-eyed ... but both are thin, and both are thin-haired ...
especially the one, who also has swollen vulva.
 
Anyone have any info. on the alternative treatment?  What?  Who?
Statistics?
 
Thank you!
 
Peri & the Fearsome Furry Five
[Posted in FML issue 3958]