Re: Barney update...

On Feb 29, 8:20 pm, "Nanny" <catsonl...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I never saw the original post, so I'm replying here.

Helen, if Barney has a liver tumour and you should decide not to operate,
try putting him on milk thistle. My Rose was diagnosed with an imoperable
liver tumour in Nov.2006 and is still alive and looking great at this moment
on one drop of milk thistle per day. I can't say if it would work for him,
but it's worth a try. If it's his spleen and the vet is sure it's not
metastasized you can have the spleen removed. I must say though that this
reminds me a lot of what my Emmy had, a tumour between liver and pancreas. I
was so stupid to go to a very ferret-knowledgeable vet for a second opinion,
he said he could get it out , then called me at work in the middle of the
operation telling me it turned out to be inoperable and did I want her pts
without waking her up :-(  Which I did, of course..... I still wish I'd let
her spend her last days quietly with her friends and me without all the
hassle of a vet visit almost every day.
Worms are not very common in ferrets. Mine have never had worms, though the
cats did a few tines.

Nanny

Thanks for this information, Nancy, it helps me make a decision. The
fuzzies are being wormed as a matter of course - the likelyhood of
them having worms is, I would say, virtually non existant as they
don't go anywhere to pick them up and they don't get non-fert food.

The problem is, compared to cats and dogs I know virtually nothing
about ferts, and so whereas with a cat or dog I can make an educated
best guess/decision, with ferrets I'm fairly ignorant and have to rely
on other peoples advice.....

TBH, I think I'm just going to take a very conservative approach.

Thanks to everyone for all the purrs.

Helen M
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