http://www.smartgroups.com/message/readmessage.cfm? gid=1423922&messageid=7489&startid=7492 >Sent 3 ferrets to the vet yesterday. One for her Lupron injection, Cody >for dark puddle poop & Charlie for his yellow seedy poop. Charlie & >Cody both had fecals done & the results was that they both have >Clostridium. Thinking about this they all have had this before but I >just never thought of it. Naturally if the 2 tested have it, the other >23 have it. Dear Y: I'm not a fan of diagnosing Clostridium in feces. Robust bacilli are always present in ferret feces, and there is no way to tell if they are pathogenic Clostridium or not. It is a common and valid test in birds, but not really in ferrets. Add this to the fact that clostridiosis is a rare disease in ferrets (once diagnosed in a group of blackfooted ferrets as the cause of gastric bloat), and I have to be a bit circumspect about this diagnosis. With kidnest regards, Bruce Williams, DVM [Posted in FML issue 4396]