A few gifts to FML members to start the season. Yeah, I have been surfing a bit again. People here will recall Jackie's accounts of Ben and danger of mouth burns from electrical cords: http://www.vetmed.ufl.edu/pr/nw_story/FERT.HTM http://www.aemv.org/Documents/2006_AEMV_proceedings_4.pdf is Anatomy and Physiology of the Gastrointestinal System of the Ferret and Selected Exotic Carnivores Cathy A. Johnson-Delaney, DVM, Dipl ABVP (Avian) AU. Penn Vet School article w some ferret mentions, including that they are in millions of families just here in the U.S. alone: <http://www.vet.upenn.edu/schoolresources/communications/publications/bellwether/57/special_species.html> Another resource I hadn't found before (ferret radiology, Dr. Karen Rosenthal): http://www.vin.com/VINDBPub/SearchPB/Proceedings/PR05000/PR00402.htm Haven't seen this photo before and it shows technique well for getting blood: http://cal.vet.upenn.edu/projects/ssclinic/samples/fervenip.htm a place w back issues of animal magazines: http://www.shopanimalnetwork.com/productbackissue.aspx?pid=701 Abstract on the normal composition of Cerebrospinal Fluid in ferrets: http://avmajournals.avma.org/doi/abs/10.2460/ajvr.2004.65.758 In BioOne there is at least one ferret article (Dr. Avery Bennett on a case of thoracic chordoma) but there isn't a direct link: http://www.bioone.org/perlserv/?request=index-html Okay: 220 ferret articles. Some will be restricted except for abstracts, but I noticed on the home page that the journal does have some open access articles, too. Tip: Forget the search box and select "search" in the top menu bar. Then have the setting to look in all publications and just look for articles that contain the word "ferret". Leave the rest blank unless you know what you are looking for specifically. Here is something from one of their journals to take into account if you ever have a ferret with Giardia: BEGIN QUOTED ABSTRACT Volume 91, Issue 1 (February 2005) Journal of Parasitology Article: pp. 179--182 | Full Text | PDF (5.46M) Zoonotic Genotype of Giardia intestinalis Detected in a Ferret iichiro AbeA, Carolyn ReadA, B, R. C. Andrew ThompsonA, B, and Motohiro IsekiA, C A. Department of Microbiology, Osaka City Institute of Public Health and Environmental Sciences, Tennoji-ku, Osaka 543-0026, Japan, B. Division of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA 6150, Australia, C. Department of Parasitology, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa University, Takara-machi, Kanazawa 920-8640, Japan. E-mail: [log in to unmask] Giardia intestinalis has been found in a variety of mammals, including humans, and consists of host-specific and zoonotic genotypes. There has been only 1 study of G. intestinalis infection in weasels, but the genotype of its isolate remains unclear. In this study, we report the isolation ofGiardia in a ferret exhibited at a pet shop. The isolate was analyzed genetically to validate the possibility of zoonotic transmission. Giardia diagnostic fragments of the small subunit ribosomal RNA, Beta-giardin, and glutamate dehydrogenase genes were amplified from the ferret isolate and sequenced to reveal the phylogenetic relationships between it and other Giardia species or genotypes of G. intestinalis reported previously. The results showed that the ferret isolate represented the genetic group A-I in assemblage A, which could be a causative agent of human giardiasis. DOI: 10.1645/GE-3405RN END QUOTED ABSTRACT Okay, on more searching the search engine there pulls up a LOT of things that are NOT ferret articles, so look carefully through the pages. They need Bill Gruber or Pam and Eric Sessoms to work up a better search engine for them! :-) Instead using the words "Mustela Ferret" takes the number down to 95 though I can guaranty you that the lemur article, the giant anteater one and some others still don't apply. Yep, they definitely need someone w the skills of Bill or of Pam and Eric. Lousy searching... Many of the ferret articles are BFF or BFF-related ones. Sukie (not a vet) Recommended ferret health links: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/ http://ferrethealth.org/archive/ http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/ http://www.ferretcongress.org/ http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html [Posted in FML 5799]