Sentences with phrase «ferrets with»

Recently I treated three ferrets with the two most common skin tumors, and one ferret with an unusual lump under its skin.

During this period, many veterinarians have switched to immunizing ferrets with Merck's Nobivac ® Puppy - DPv, a vaccine that has been used successfully in ferrets in Europe and the UK for many years.

Ferrets with heartworms occasionally cough and fluid may back up into their abdominal cavity and lungs, but more often, the only sign of infection is general weakness.

Ferrets with diarrhea may not appear to be visibly sick at all, or they may show lack of appetite, vomiting, weight loss, weakness, lethargy, and / or dehydration.

There is even a hypoallergenic diet available for ferrets with food allergies.

There are also special ferret foods designed to help prevent shedding and hairballs, and diets for ferrets with allergies.

It has helped old ferrets, ferrets with insulinoma, ferrets with hair loss, and ferrets who are just plain too sick to eat.

Rosenthal KL, Peterson ME: Evaluation of plasma androgen and estrogen concentrations in ferrets with hyperadrenocorticism.

For years, ferret lovers have been trying to find a super formula to fatten up sick ferrets, oldsters and ferrets with ulcers.

Unlike cats and dogs, ferrets with GI obstruction usually do not vomit.

October 8, 2005 Sunnyvale, CA An Advanced Course: Management of the Ferret for Veterinary Professionals SESSION I: Emergency Medicine & Critical Care — N. Antinoff SESSION II: Oncology General Oncology Overview and Tips for Treating Ferrets with Cancer - N. Antinoff Lymphoma: A retrospective review of disease, diagnostics, and treatment — N. Antinoff A new lymphoma chemotherapy protocol for ferrets — Preliminary observations - J. Mayer SESSION III: Gastrointestinal & Hepatic Diseases — M. Burgess SESSION IV: Studying Ferret Behavior — V. Staton SESSION V: Disseminated Idiopathic Myositis — An Emerging Disease — K. Ramsell CASE REPORTS — R. Gandolfi / A.

This includes treating ferrets with adrenal gland disease, attending to lizards with bladder stones, remedying rabbits with dental disease and fixing fractures in birds.

Even adults need to handle ferrets with care, as they might mistake a finger for an edible treat.

Ferrets with flea or tick problems can be treated with a cat or ferret flea shampoo.

Many ferrets with insulinoma never experience a seizure.

Most veterinarians have found that ferrets with insulinomas respond best to surgical, rather than medical treatment.

Their food consumption needs to be closely watched because ferrets with insulinoma must eat frequently.

Since ferrets with insulinoma must never go without eating, these can be very serious side effects.

Rosenthal KL, Peterson ME: Determination of plasma concentrations of adrenal androgens in normal ferrets and ferrets with adrenal gland disease.

As we have previously mentioned, ferrets with heartworm disease are very delicate patients.

Large hairballs that fill up the entire stomach are more common in middle - aged to older ferrets, especially those ferrets with adrenal gland disease.

Primarily, they changed their «formula» or processing for Wysong Archetypal for ferrets with no notification and no difference in packaging.

Ferrets with this problem do not appear to be in pain.

Some ferret owners have given their male ferrets with this problem saw palmetto to help them urinate.

So, as you can see, there is a lot of confusion when it comes to ferrets with loose poop.

Ferrets with this problem have lived a long time.

Another organism, Lawsonia intracellularis, was isolated in the mid 1980s from weanling ferrets with intestinal inflammation - and once from a pet ferret in 1989.

Pain score sheets that demonstrate how ferrets show pain can be useful in discussing oral care with owners, as ferrets with dental disease may continue to eat and behavior cues may otherwise be too subtle for owners to notice or perceive as oral pain.

This tends to be a disease of neutered male and female ferrets with an average age of 3 years.

For tests not performed at the Veterinary Center, we have access to several outside laboratories that offer specialized testing for diseases unique to our exotic patients, such as hormone level determination for ferrets with adrenal disease and insulinoma tumors, psittacosis testing in birds, proventricular dilatation disease (PDD) testing for birds, Encephilitizoon cuniculi parasite testing for rabbits, adenovirus (atadenovirus) testing in bearded dragons, and internal parasite testing for reptiles and amphibians (frogs and toads).

The Veterinary Center also offers several exotic pet species - specific procedures including deslorelin implants for ferrets with adrenal disease, jaw abscess debridement for rabbits, bladder stone removal for guinea pigs and rabbits, and egg removal and spaying for egg bound birds and reptiles.

Ferrets with insulinomas may become hypoglycemic (low blood sugar) while sleeping and not wake to eat.

Ashley Most ferrets with insulin producing tumors respond well to treatment with prednisolone and some are cured with surgery.

Do you have experience in caring for ferrets with medical needs?

Marshall Pet Products Tea Tree Ferret Shampoo is specially pH balanced for ferrets with the gentlest natural cleaning system available.

All three of these top rated ferret cages will provide your ferrets with activities for them to do such as climbing ramps and shelves and tunnels, as well as places to hide and rest too.

More than 90 percent of female ferrets with adrenal gland disease develop an enlarged vulva, which may be accompanied by discharge.

Ferrets with heart disease are prone to having a blood clot develop at the distal end of the aorta near the rear legs.

Insomnia is cancer for ferrets that comes as a result of feeding your ferrets with high carbs food and highly processed food.

The outlook is not very good for most ferrets with this disease, even when caught early.

We have proposed conducting a series of comparative analyses to discover which genetic traits endow domestic ferrets with immunity.

Needing proxies for humans, the researchers infected caged ferrets with either the original 1918 flu virus (reconstructed two years ago) or the altered form.

He infected ferrets with the hybrid virus, which then acquired two additional mutations.

Fouchier worked with H5N1 bird flu, forcing it from ferret nose to ferret nose 10 times: First he removed the virus from a ferret nose with cotton swabs; then he diluted the swab material and inoculated the next ferret with the germ.

High estrogen levels in an intact female that stays in heat or in a ferret with adrenal gland disease can cause the bone marrow to stop producing red blood cells and cause a moderate to severe anemia.

Feeding your ferret with raw meaty bones would be ideal.

Parasite Control: A fecal parasite check should be done on all new ferrets, and any ferret with gastro - intestinal disease or unexplained weight loss.

There are many other diseases that we can find in ferrets, however if you own ferrets long enough, you will probably have a ferret with one of the above listed diseases.

Shower your Ferret with lots of praise and affection when they do the right thing.

While it is not unheard of to have interspecies friendships, it is an exception and it is generally considered unsafe to house your ferret with other species unsupervised.