Why not just go to

http://marshallpet.com/marshall2/resources/mp_contact.asp

and

<http://marshallpet.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=18&Itemid=3>

and ask them?

I have heard that which toe is used tells who did the surgeries to
track whose work might ever have problems, but I have absolutely NO
idea if that or any other outside claim is accurate, so ask the people
who know why it was done, and then share that info here.

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/
http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/
http://www.ferretcongress.org/
http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml
http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html
all ferret topics:
http://listserv.ferretmailinglist.org/archives/ferret-search.html
"All hail the procrastinators for they shall rule the world tomorrow."
(2010, Steve Crandall)

[Posted in FML 7034]