This is forwarded from a friend who lacks net.access, please e-mail any replies to address below. ========= A Santa Cruz SPCA employee in training to be a licensed animal tech would like advice on a sick ferret. A local school has some (legal) ferrets, one of whom is ill. It began as a upper respiratory infection/flu in the group of ferrets, most of which recovered normally. One ferret did not recover, it has some weakness in its hind legs and a suspected enlarged spleen. Any ideas? ========= I gather there is some controversy over ferrets being illegal in Ca and the SPCA's role in this - the people involved in this said to say that they are actively sympathetic to legalising ferrets in Ca. [Lympho coincidental with the flu? Enlarged spleen is suggestive. (one of our ferrets died of a ruptured spleen arising out of Lympho.) I've heard of weakness related to Lympho, but not in Toby's case, he didn't live long enough to show any symptoms.] [Posted in FML issue 0382]