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Post by Heather on Apr 9, 2010 23:18:42 GMT -5
Here's the so called phylosophy behind the veggies in a carnivore's diet; I remember when I first started feeding raw it was to veggie or not to veggie, that was the questions In the last few years I've been adding veggie but it's not to simulate stomach contents of prey.....it's to simulate fur and other so called indigestibles. When we feed frankenprey we are trying to recreate prey....the muscle, bone, blood.....but we can't recreate fur. The fur doesn't feed the carnivore but it does feed the gut bacteria and it is used by the body to pull out various things that don't go out with the garbage (hairballs...things like that) It also for whatever reason appears to ease the attacks that are suffered by IBD ferrets?? I use squash and pumpkin interchageably in my guys diet. Not alot but some and they appear to be better for it. I hope that helps to explain it a bit. This is more an observation than actual proof but this was how it was explained to me by a couple of raw supporting vets. ciao
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Post by katt on Apr 10, 2010 2:53:11 GMT -5
Hmmm interesting! Thank you! Koda is going stir crazy! The FN cage is 1/2 as big as his old cage, and bc he can't climb it will stay that way for a while. He is currently ripping apart the fresh paper towels I put in there, moving the litter box, trying to get under his new bedding, and in gneral being a little terror! I feel bad bc I know he is bored and wants to play, but there really isn't anywhere small that I can just let him loose without having to worry about him getting into trouble. The bathroom is a mess right now and with finals coming I don't have the time to clean it, and my room is too big and not yet re-super-ferret-proofed. I got him a few new toys, and he seems to like those, but he is still bored. I would be too. When can he climb again, and when is it ok to let him start playing around and stuff more without worrying about ripping stitches and such? My bf, Shane's room is newly re-super-ferret-proofed, but I don't want to bring him until I know that he is safe to romp, and that he can climb.
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Post by Heather on Apr 10, 2010 23:33:25 GMT -5
Phone and ask your vet It's the safest way. ciao
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Post by odin on Apr 13, 2010 17:28:28 GMT -5
I just read through this entire thread, I'm sorry to hear about the ordeal Koda went through, but i'm happy he's come out ok. We did abdominal surgery with Cassi twice this year. Once in september and again in february. The first time it was an earplug. The second time was the mysterious tummy disease cassi had that we still don't know what it was. The surgery was for a crap ton of biopsies, all of which came back negative. So my crash course in post surgical ferrets has taught me many things. I let cassi out to walk around the second day she was home. It was better to let her poke around a little then risk her pulling a stitch having a temper tantrum. I would let him out and watch him like a hawk. they're much tougher animals then we give them credit for, and they heal like wolverine from x-men (accurately named after another weasel family member ) They hide injury, so he'll kind of hop around with his tummy lifted up. he'll fend it and keep it from dragging. don't get it wet, unless the vet told you to. there is no way possible to keep him from licking the wound, so don't bother trying, let him keep it clean, he instinctively knows how to do it. jumping and leaping will be hard for him, but he'll try anyway. be there to help him if he tries to hop over something like the rim of a cage if he tries to jump but lands on his belly. Just before the hair starts to grow back the skin is going to look like the worst purple bruises you have ever seen. it will look like someone kicked him. it is normal. it scared the CRAP out of me. I called my vet screaming about internal bleeding. been through it twice now, and it happened both times. She got the same incision twice within 5 months of each other and she still has a perfect straight zipper now. He'll sleep a lot as he heals. See if you can pick up or create some kind of play pen for him to come out into if you don't fully trust your room yet. Letting him walk around is good for him. besides the only way to know that you have ferret proofed an area is to let a ferret into it and watch them intensely. he'll probably only hit his favorite spots with a quick sniff to make sure everything is just the way he left it and then go back to sleep. I'll put money on him feeling a lot better than you'll think he is in a week or less.
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