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mad_andySlay and I appear to be trading viruses at the moment. I've got a particularly jolly little throat infection allied with a marvellous sinusy/catarrhal sneezy cough; bucketloads of mucus and headaches. Still, at least it means that sleeping on the sofa isn't such a chore, as I can prop myself up so I don't cough quite so much.
Poor Pepsi. As long as we are either within her eyeshot or out the house she's fine; it's when she can't see us that she seems to panic. I don't blame her. She should be kipping on the bottom of someone's bed, not being confined to a damn crate, no matter how often I turn her out or how comfortable I make it. I'm at my wit's end. Surely something will come up...?
Update on Titch; growing well, when I took her on she weighed a whole 247 grams and has just topped 350! She's beginning to play, and is getting a bit more confident. And demanding; her food bowl was empty last night and she basically hung on the bars of her cage and screamed until I went and filled it for her. At this rate it won't be long until she can join the big ferrets outside.
And speaking of ferrets...my friend Sarah has bred a litter this year; I'm going to have - well, hopefully - a couple of hobs. On thursday one of the kits died - he'd been unable to walk, and although mum was bringing him food and he seemed a happy little soul the fact remained that his legs didn't work. So off he went to the vets, and they decided to x-ray him the following day. Well, poor little sod died that night. Bad enough, but two more of the kits are going the same way...
The trouble is that appart from the weakness/paralysis (posterior paresis, to use the technical term) is the first symptom of just about everything. I'm digging out my various ferret vet textbooks to see if I can track anything down but...I get the horrible feeling she might lose the lot. Bit like the disease called 'fading pup syndrome'; perfectly healthy puppies just...fade away, one at a time. And no-one knows why.
Still, I'll keep looking. Even so, it looks like the indomitable Titch might be the only kit I do get this year!
Okay, back off to crash out on the sofa. And cough up another lung lobe or two!
Poor Pepsi. As long as we are either within her eyeshot or out the house she's fine; it's when she can't see us that she seems to panic. I don't blame her. She should be kipping on the bottom of someone's bed, not being confined to a damn crate, no matter how often I turn her out or how comfortable I make it. I'm at my wit's end. Surely something will come up...?
Update on Titch; growing well, when I took her on she weighed a whole 247 grams and has just topped 350! She's beginning to play, and is getting a bit more confident. And demanding; her food bowl was empty last night and she basically hung on the bars of her cage and screamed until I went and filled it for her. At this rate it won't be long until she can join the big ferrets outside.
And speaking of ferrets...my friend Sarah has bred a litter this year; I'm going to have - well, hopefully - a couple of hobs. On thursday one of the kits died - he'd been unable to walk, and although mum was bringing him food and he seemed a happy little soul the fact remained that his legs didn't work. So off he went to the vets, and they decided to x-ray him the following day. Well, poor little sod died that night. Bad enough, but two more of the kits are going the same way...
The trouble is that appart from the weakness/paralysis (posterior paresis, to use the technical term) is the first symptom of just about everything. I'm digging out my various ferret vet textbooks to see if I can track anything down but...I get the horrible feeling she might lose the lot. Bit like the disease called 'fading pup syndrome'; perfectly healthy puppies just...fade away, one at a time. And no-one knows why.
Still, I'll keep looking. Even so, it looks like the indomitable Titch might be the only kit I do get this year!
Okay, back off to crash out on the sofa. And cough up another lung lobe or two!
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