These photos were taken on Monday, just over 2 weeks from when he got his suprelorlin implant.

I don’t know what I thought I would see after 2 weeks … I didn’t expect him to suddenly have lots of fluffy fur bursting forth out of his back but I suppose I was hoping that once the implant was put in, that it would halt the hair loss. Maybe it did but as I didn’t count every follicle before the implant and afterwards, I don’t know if it did anything

I’ve dodged this bullet for SEVENTEEN years!  Imagine that!

Well – actually that’s not entirely true, as Muis my albino girl who developed insulinoma got it at the end of her life but the AGD was as a result of her insulinoma.

You might have read my post about Seamus, when I thought he had AGD and took him for an ultrasound and biopsy, but – thankfully – both found that there was nothing wrong with his adrenal glands.

I am extremely pleased to say that the report came back and gave him a clean bill of health!

His pancreas has a couple of benign growths on it — not the beginning of insulinoma as I had feared — and there’s nothing malignant lurking in any other areas so I am happy, very happy

I just don’t understand why he is losing his hair at the base of his tail – the classic adrenal starting point – and why my vet found that his fur on the inner sides of his back legs was looking thin too. Could it just be an odd looking rat’s tail and normal spring shedding which had both of us fooled?

I must say I was convinced he had adrenal disease, because the hair loss was – according to all I’ve read and heard about – typical. A big blob of hair missing right at the base of the tail, like so …

… You can see where the hair is missing, can’t you?

Another symptom I thought he had was pruritis. He seemed to be itchy, far more than the other three, and excessive itchiness is another wretched symptom of adrenal gland disease (ADG).

The last time I had a ferret who enjoyed rearranging all my books for me was when Kaos was around so I’m wondering if this is a BEW (DEW) fetish or if it’s just a coincidence that both my recent BEWs enjoy removing books

I must say that Spook is settling in extremely well. The only bit of trouble seems to be around 6am every morning, when he and Seamus decide to pounce on each other. There’s a lot of screaming, I think mainly from Seamus, big bottlebrushes on both tails and the smell … oh my! It’s pure whole hob aroma – very yukky – and seems to hang around for quite a while.