My oldest, dearest girl is also dead now after being at a new vet since 9:00 this morning. He doesn't perform necropsies on ferrets and to be honest I have such little faith in them now as I have been to 3 different ones in 8 days. Then finally today I am told by the 3rd vet that the 2nd one prescribed 5 times as much Antibiotic ( Clindamycin 12.5 mg every 12 hours) as is indicated for the weight of my ferrets. Along with .5 mls of Lopermide every 12. Then last night when I phoned about the downgrade in the remaining kids condition he told me to give the baby the same damn dose! No wonder he died in my arms!!! Now I don't know Clyndamycin from paint stripper but I can only guess after tasting it that in the dose they got it felt just about the same sliding down their already weakened digestive tract! ( To all the vets in the group: I would be very interested in hearing your thoughts on whether this over dosage contributed to the deaths of my ferrets?? As well as any info on who I would send the baby to for a necropsy study) I am so frustrated I could spit! But I doubt with all the crying I've done I could even work up enuf to do it! I asked him about amox and pediapred from day one, provided him with Dr Williams treatment sheet as well!! But he said this would be better tolerated!!!!! WTH????? I don't know whether to forgive his ignorance or curse his ARROGANCE for not telling me he knew nothing about ferrets. If he had just given them the sub q's for the crisis at hand and admitted he didn't know JACK I would have called the last vet I hadn't tried in the next town over a week ago!!!! Turns out he has ferret experience and in fact is one of the vets used by Neen at Frontier Ferrets shelter that is just 100 miles from me. ( which I wouldn't have ever know about if it hadn't been for an angel from Kansas named Troy Lynn ) What a hard lesson!!! The resources were here they just took me too long too find in a situation where every hour counts. Hind sight can be a cruel thing. But not nearly as cruel as losing all three of the only pets you've ever raised in you life one right after the other! Cindy [Posted in FML issue 3680]