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Post by krazychica on Aug 2, 2008 13:23:57 GMT -5
My ferret will be getting the surgery if the resuts come back positive, but what can I do to help speed his recovery? Money doesn't matter-Im getting a job just to support his new raw diet anyways
EDIT-Should I separate him from his sister untill his stiches heal?
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Post by tss on Aug 2, 2008 14:09:08 GMT -5
Rest and love, thats all he will need. If you get him onto raw before the surgery (even if it's just raw soupies) and feed him the raw during his recovery it should help speed it up.
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Post by mustelidmusk on Aug 2, 2008 18:41:34 GMT -5
My vet told me that animals do better in surgery if they're well-hydrated when they go in. You'll be instructed to withold food and water by a certain time prior to the surgery. I always ofer a favorite nourishing meal or snack about an hour efore you ned to stop feeding. I also give pedialyte the day before and also right before I need to withdraw the food. I put something yummy in thepedialyte to entice the ferret to drink some. It's also good for after the surgery.
You ma want to restrict your ferret to the bottom of the cage for a few days to allow healing to being - no rough play!!! They can pull stitches out and strain muscles that will be tight!!!
-jennifer
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Post by mustelidmusk on Aug 2, 2008 23:27:09 GMT -5
My typical approach is to separate the ferret that has had the surgery for the first weekk hkeepin him in a single-level cage by himself. I let them all out together, but I supervise all play and keep things pretty mellow. I keep play -time limited depending on the level of activity/triedness I see. Healthy Ferrets bounce back from a typical adrenal surgery amazingly quickly. After one of my ferret's surgery, I had removed the ramps to keep my ferret on the bottom level of the cage. The day after the surgery, my boy was sitting on the top shelf in the 4' tall cage... the ramps went back in, and he was back with his brother on day two since he was more likely to damage himself trying to get too is brother, who was a mellow boy. You'll figur out what needs to be done since frrets tend to be very good communicators -jennifer
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Post by ferretfreke on Aug 9, 2008 12:40:22 GMT -5
I highly recommend seperating ferrets recovering from surgery for at least the first week mainly so that you can closely monitor what your ferret is eating, drinking, and what his/her stools look like. So that if s/he were to stop eating for example, you'd know right away.
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