I have a ferret that injured the roof of his mouth. We aren't sure if it was from eating dog food, or just what. He is currently at the vet and there is an issue with anemia and clotting. They are transfusing him and running a few more tests today. They are very concerned because his blood protein came back high. (10 or so?) and they feel that could indicate an auto immune disorder or cancer. Right now they are looking at using silver nitrate to try to stop the bleeding in his mouth, it won't clot and just keeps seeping. They are preping him for a transfusion (thank you local Reno person who has 12 ferrets currently with my vet, Dexter thanks you too.) and she is sending another test out to see if they can tell her just what is going on. I didn't get the name of the test, just that in 5% of cases it can show a false positive/negative. There was so much information in the phone call, I am afraid I didn't absorb it all. His platelet count is way down and something else as well. This just barely happened, I wasn't as if I waited at all. I found him with dried blood and once we cleaned him up we couldn't find the source, then we looked in his mouth and it was full of blood. Once we cleaned that out some we saw the scrape in the roof of his mouth. I'm just sick thinking that we may do all we can and lose him anyway. We just lost Simone two weeks ago, and that wound is still fresh. Does anyone has any ideas of something that we should be looking for? My vet is wonderful, but not sure what could be causing the high blood protein with everything else. Right now we are dealing with the bleeding issue and waiting for the results of the test that could take a few days to come back. Dexter is almost 7, but a very active and except for the adrenal issues that we use Leuprolide for...a very healthy almost 7. Please, ideas anyone? Thanks, Dexter's Mama Kim in Reno [Posted in FML 6006]