Hi folks:
 
A few weeks back I noticed on my ferret Phoebe a raw spot on her neck,
right behind her left ear.  I assumed that she had banged herself against
something, so put some hydrogen peroxide on the spot.  The next day the
spot was scabbed over and a few days later the scab was gone and it
appeared the spot was healing.  Today, however, I noticed the raw spot
was back, bigger than before and seemingly more inflammed.
 
I haven't noticed her scratching the spot.  I also note that this problem
arose just about the same time she developed a case of rat tail.
 
Any thoughts on what this might be?  Suggestions about what I can do
about it?
 
Yours in ferretphilia,
 
Kelly A.
 
Kelly Anspaugh
The Ohio State University-Lima
4240 Campus Drive
Lima, Ohio  45804
PHONE: 419-995-8322
FAX: 419-221-1658
 
"Joe had been explaining things in the meantime.  He said it was again the
beginning of the unfinished, the re-discovery of the familiar, the
re-experience of the already suffered, the fresh-forgetting of the
unremembered.  Hell goes round and round."
Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
[Posted in FML issue 3164]