At 3:28 AM -0400 9/28/01, Automatic digest processor wrote:
>If a ferrets scent glands do fill and become uncomfortable for the
>ferret do you....(1) ignore it?  (2) surgically remove the anal glands?
>(3) express them or (4) ????????
 
In 19 years we have had only one with infected glands.  Sometimes warm
soaks (with or without antibiotic runs) work; when not, then removal is
the way to go.  Expressing regularly from such tender tissue as ferrets
have can cause a problem to continue, according to the vet who removed
them from the one who had an impacted one.  I.E.: instead of a cure
regular expression MIGHT be a cause of problems.
[Posted in FML issue 3555]