Anonymous wrote: >For Pete's sake, DON'T put SUPERGLUE on a wound!!!! No one in their right >mind would tell you to do that. It's a toxic chemical for open wounds and >will get into the bloodstream. Would you do that to a person?!? It will >just be painful, messy and cause further infection. I mentioned glue recently, though if the poster thought I meant that the vet or we put on super glue I just can't figure out HOW the person could think that. There are special glues for closing wounds, and I expect some poster along the line in this topic thread was unaware of that. Because Seven had already removed one stitch and bothered others the incision was fortified with surgical glue by the vet. That held, whereas a new stitching would have meant anesthesia two days in a row and she'd likely have removed those, too. The surgical glue goes on blue, but I can tell you from observing Seven that it turns white it is messed with by the ferret. Did someone else mention glue? Must have, I guess, if people read straight. On the other hand, if there was a misreading and that mistake arose from invalid interpretations of my posts which don't mesh with what was actually written then go back and look more carefully at the mention that Seven behaved herself wonderfully, lying in my hands while the vet used the surgical glue. It has turned out to be a WONDERFUL thing to help when one is a stitch remover, and worth remembering as a repair option in such situations. Not bad having the topic come up again -- means that people may recall better if they encounter ferrets who open incisions or who have wounds large enough to need closing, though not necessarily with stitches. (Heck, with humans there is a new approach in testing in which a zipper on a see-through medium is glued around the wound then zipped up tight during healing. Many ways exist to close some wounds.) [Posted in FML issue 3321]