Okay story is that me and my boyfriend where looking on criglist and I found two cute ferrets that I could not say no too and they have a three story cage and everything else that goes along with it well it was a GREAT deal it was 75 $ for everything I could not pass this up so I bought them I went to the environment of the house they lived in and it was so DISGUSTING smelled horrible I was not going to just leave them there so we took them anyways we got them home cleaned EVERYTHING they had gave them a bath and found out they had fleas so we had to go back to the pet store bought flea shampoo and gave them a nice warm bath but I have not seen any fleas on them
and they still itch I bombed my house because I did not want them to go threw this agian
I just need to know if they have no fleas why are they still itching any reason at all?
Please help me <3
Thank you for getting these babies.
Be careful what you use on ferrets as a number of things are harmful and could kill them, though.
pets question and answers,www.5d2d.com The list of possibilities given is good. If you want to make sure that fleas are not a problem, you need to you something like advantage for the smallest cat. Put only half of a tube for the smallest cat on one ferret. It should last a LONG time and is much cheaper than shampoos, chemicals ....... etc.
Please make sure that these guys are fed properly. I have responded to several questions regarding this if you want to check out my other answers. No fruits, vegys, nuts, peanut butter, sweets, milk, grains ... should ever be given to a ferret and their food should be a MINIMUM of 40% protein and 20% fat. NO CAT FOOD OR DOG FOOD !!!!!!!
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Ferrets tend to be itchy animals, that does not mean that they are not allergic to something or developing adrenal disease that makes them even more itchy/dry skin ... Remember, if this is adrenal disease, it is NOT A SKIN CONDITION. Although the fur may fall out, there are far more serious things to consider such as the fact that females vulva can swell and get infected. Males can get an enlarged protate that causes them to not be able to urinate-a life threatening issue. The adrenal symptoms could be related to cancer of the adrenal gland. This appears to be associated with the fact that in the US ferrets are spayed/neutered, recovered and in pet stores often before they are six weeks old.
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Adrenal ferrets should be treated with either lupron, surgery or the new deslorilin implants. Their quality of life will be sufficiently lowered if left untreated and will lead to an early death. Here issome info about adrenal disease:
Ferret Lupron Info
Dr. Cathy Johnson-Delaney
It's important to understand that at this time, the use of an annual injection of 30 day depot lupron may or may not truly prevent the onset of adrenal disease - it may delay the onset, at least theoretically and in early clinical trial results seems to show that it may delay onset, but it has not been proven - trials are on-going.
In work done by myself and by Nico Schoemacher (different parts of the disease), we've seen that there is a correlation between the time of neuter/spay and onset of adrenal disease. We've also seen that the hormones spike annually in neutered animals, corresponding with the normal onset of breeding season (similar spiking and build up by intact ferrets).
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Our studies were done in the Seattle area with Seattle light and climate conditions. The timing for our ferrets is known based on 5 years of year-round monthly hormone panels run on intact, neutered, and adrenal disease ferrets (statistical number, not yet published data). It may differ elsewhere in the country, it may differ slightly even from year to year. The most important time to suppress the first "turn on" of the adrenal receptors is likely at puberty - the first reproductive season after birth - kits should be given at least 1 injection and possibly 1 or 2 additional months or possibly 1 of the 3 month longer acting luprons that first season - timing for that and educating owners to get young ferrets in and then annually will likely be the most effective. Until we have chairside lab ability to get estradiol, progesterone and androstenedione instantaneously in the office, we are using the hormone schedule for Seattle-area ferrets as the basis for scheduling.
In reality, in an ideal world we should probably suppress sex steroid production in neutered ferrets for their entire life - implant available in Australia, the UK, and EU of deslorelin 4.7 mg, or start injections of Lupron at about 4-5 months of age as close to full-grown as possible. This would help, and likely push the development of adrenal disease again to the aged ferret. So far, with over 50 ferrets we are following, this seems to be the case, and some are now 6 yrs of age, with far fewer adrenal-related problems than we'd find in control (non-treated) cohort. It's promising, but still in its infancy.
