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Hoping Baby Bear is feeling better and that you have managed to see the vet or at least get some medicine for him. |
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just off the phone with the vet. his fecal came back negative for parasites. she wants me to continue pedialyte and syringe feed him up to 1cc Pepto Bismol up to 4x a day as needed and check in again with her on Monday. |
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Glad to hear that; hope Baby Bear will continue to improve, poor little guy. |
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Hoping he's doing well on the treatment you are giving him, Tink. |
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Glad no parasites Tink. I never knew you could give Pepto Bismol to animals - does that include cats, do you know? |
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How is he today, Tink? |
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Angie I am not sure about cats. Ferrets are so close to humans I think that's why they can get a lot of things you'd see at your normal grocery to help them (Pepto, Pepcid AC, Carafate...). I do know when I had a cat with diahhrea before I added pumpkin to his food per vet's advice and it helped a lot so that does work safely for cats to just kind of help firm things up a bit and no worries about risk of toxicity. Eileen, he is "okay". Still not very active but he's bright eyed and interested in his surroundings so that's always promising. His movements are definitely still not normal but they are at least not completely watery like before so that is good. Lots of mucus in it which makes me worry about his intestinal lining. There is a ferret illness called ECE that I was concerned about but none of the others seem to have it and it would be highly contagious. I've also talked to some other ferrents and they recently have had the same symptoms and their doc put their babies on antibiotics for a bacterial infection, although it could be viral and then it would just be a preventative of secondary infection. My vet told me to call her tomorrow and if he's not improved she'll send me home some antibiotics as a precautionary measure. Everything I keep reading about ECE or possible viral just indicates all you can offer is supportive care until their system fights it off (keeping them hydrated and such). I'm really confused as my ferrets are not exposed to other ferrets, we don't do play dates and I haven't even stepped foot into a pet store lately so then that has me thinking maybe it is a side effect of something internal that was already going on with Baby Bear. Certain cancers and such will do that. Sorry that was long, went off on a bit of a tangent there. Can you tell I've been thinking about this a lot?   |
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Guess who just came out dancing around and playful???  |
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Aaah! Good news!.  |
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Nice to know Baby Bear is back to normal. Thank Goodness |
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