Post by smokeyoshi on Mar 15, 2017 18:27:01 GMT -5
Te Good
Picked Rosa out of the cage tonight (had to move her to lower level so Scamp wouldn't attack her when he went to bed) and she tucked her head under my arm and kept on sleeping, for like 20 minutes. Normally if I hold her for more than a couple minutes she wants to chomp.
My angel-devil hybrid
IMG_2644 by unclejoe1158, on Flickr
The bad and ugly
I guess Rosa is now on the borrowed time list. She got a Suprelorin implant in November and had a nice regrowth of fur, but at the same time, she has lost a good bit of weight and he fur doesn't look young and fresh like Kahlua's did.
If you all remember, a few months after we adopted her in Feb '14, she had a growth removed from her ear. We didn't have it biopsied, and we have not seen anything like it until a couple months ago. Now she has 4 of these growths which believe are tumors.
IMG_2649 by unclejoe1158, on Flickr
Mast cell tumors are around 75% benign. Booboo had one removed from his neck, and 2 months later he was gone. They had sprouted all over his body, mostly his belly. I suspect that the one wasn't completely removed and some fragments got into his blood and metastasized elsewhere. We're not going to do surgery on Rosa. We believe she is over 5 years old, even 6+, so it is what it is. She'll continue to be spoiled with her own schedule, private feedings and quarters as long as she wants.
I do hate the fact that 3 of the last 6 ferrets we implanted all died in less that a year form other causes. That money would have bought a lot of groceries that we did without. Of our current business,only Lola and Yoshi haven't had one, and Lola, the youngest, has a single bare spot on her back. Cortisone seems to be helping Lola for now. It's stopped growing and there is fur growing back. Could be a temp fix.
On a positive note, Lola and Scamp have settled things, and I found them sleeping together last week. Since then Dar has put them in the cage together without fighting. That only took 8 months.
Picked Rosa out of the cage tonight (had to move her to lower level so Scamp wouldn't attack her when he went to bed) and she tucked her head under my arm and kept on sleeping, for like 20 minutes. Normally if I hold her for more than a couple minutes she wants to chomp.
My angel-devil hybrid
IMG_2644 by unclejoe1158, on FlickrThe bad and ugly
I guess Rosa is now on the borrowed time list. She got a Suprelorin implant in November and had a nice regrowth of fur, but at the same time, she has lost a good bit of weight and he fur doesn't look young and fresh like Kahlua's did.
If you all remember, a few months after we adopted her in Feb '14, she had a growth removed from her ear. We didn't have it biopsied, and we have not seen anything like it until a couple months ago. Now she has 4 of these growths which believe are tumors.
IMG_2649 by unclejoe1158, on FlickrMast cell tumors are around 75% benign. Booboo had one removed from his neck, and 2 months later he was gone. They had sprouted all over his body, mostly his belly. I suspect that the one wasn't completely removed and some fragments got into his blood and metastasized elsewhere. We're not going to do surgery on Rosa. We believe she is over 5 years old, even 6+, so it is what it is. She'll continue to be spoiled with her own schedule, private feedings and quarters as long as she wants.
I do hate the fact that 3 of the last 6 ferrets we implanted all died in less that a year form other causes. That money would have bought a lot of groceries that we did without. Of our current business,only Lola and Yoshi haven't had one, and Lola, the youngest, has a single bare spot on her back. Cortisone seems to be helping Lola for now. It's stopped growing and there is fur growing back. Could be a temp fix.
On a positive note, Lola and Scamp have settled things, and I found them sleeping together last week. Since then Dar has put them in the cage together without fighting. That only took 8 months.
