No, it’s not a trick question

Kaos is on double dose of her diuretic and, as we all know, diuretics leach potassium out of one’s system. That leads to all kinds of symptoms like diarrhea, which she has, lack of appetite (which she appears to have, since she doesn’t seem to be eating much these days) and weakness (which I haven’t noticed yet).

I know bananas are a good source of potassium, so I got one and sliced a little bit up, mushed it up and tried to get her to eat it. She looked at me as if I had 3 heads.

I took her to the vet today as her stomach was beginning to look swollen and my vet confirmed that it was filled with fluid once again.

I’ve been told to double her diuretic dose till Monday, and then cut back.  However if Kaos’ stomach doesn’t go down then I can keep her on that higher dose indefinitely.

On a positive note, my vet was very pleased at how good Kaos was looking and I told her I thought it was because of the TCM formula.

… to all our American ferret friends!

Wishing you all a wonderful holiday and not too much turkey and pumpkin pie for your ferrets

I must say, watching this video by polevv, one of the Russian mustelid fans who has a number of videos on YouTube, is quite an eye opener.

The Siberian weasel is playing (well it looks like it was playing but seeing how the ferret’s tail fluffed up, I’m not sure if the ferret was particularly impressed with the game ) with the ferrets — it’s such a fast little animal and it was really surprising to see how slow the ferret seemed in comparison! I reckon the weasel would win any argument between the two hands down!

It got to the stage recently where hearing my little treasures all scratching furiously inside the chairs and sofa was like chewing on silver paper.

It really set my teeth on edge and I could see that Philip was getting more and more irritable by the noise.

What to do?

BING BONG!!

A brilliant idea popped into my head. I would prepare a dig box, full of aquarium gravel, so that the ferrets could all go in there and dig their way to China, if that’s what they wanted to do. I mean, I knew they liked digging as they are forever digging in their food dishes or in our dog’s food dish, scattering kibble everywhere!