>From: Risa Di Vincenzo <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Pred flavors > >My ferret Mikette has been on Prednisone for just under three weeks. My >vet can do it flavored, we tried the cherry first.... I want to try other >flavors, even if it only makes her take awhile to realize what it is. >All ferrets and all tastes are different, but I'd love it if you could >let me know what flavors your ferret has enjoyed. At our vet clinic, we CANNOT compound prednisone with the flavors we have available to us i.e. cherry-I'll check with my vets about the specifics, but it has something to do with the way the pred. bonds with the compounding agents; we can only mix pred with water and Ora-Plus, which is an oral suspension medium. Perhaps your vet does it differently, i.e. has a full compounding pharmacy on-site or has those implements available, but if we NEED pred flavored, we have to have it done at a special compounding pharmacy, where they use different mixing mediums. FYI! -April [Posted in FML issue 4247]