Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 at
6:55 am
The vet came with her mobile ultrasound gear and checked out Muis's stomach yesterday afternoon and we got her back shortly afterwards.
As our vet was off duty, I spoke to one of the other vets and she said
Muis has a 1 cm tumour on her pancreas ... ONE CENTIMETER!! My God, that seems a HUGE tumour
but there weren't any other signs that the cancer had metastised so I guess that's good news. Her right adrenal looked a little larger than the left one but no sign of trouble there .... yet!
My vet just rang me after conferring with Dave Neck, who's the ferret expert in Perth. Apparently our ferrets have a far more aggressive form of insulinoma than those in the States and it's something to do with the diet.
He'd just come back from a seminar on ferret medicine in Sydney and they had a link-up with ferret vets over in the US, so got to discuss this exact problem with the others.
Apparently our food has more protein, whereas the American ferrets' diet has more carbohydrates, so the insulinomas that American ferrets have are operable with good outcomes, whereas that's not the case with our babies.
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Friday, November 21st, 2008 at
4:06 am
My goodness, we had an absolutely HORRIBLE morning this morning. Read more...
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 at
5:15 am
We were discussing the dangers of ferrets lying behind cushions and getting crushed when people sat down on the chairs in the comments section of an earlier post and I said I'd show the damage Seamus has done to our sofa so here it is ...
The first picture shows the empty spot in the top part of one of the cushions - this was the spot that Kaos found when the sofa was first delivered a few years ago. Read more...
Sunday, November 9th, 2008 at
6:50 am
... I confess I have never been swept up by Harry Potter mania.
I thought the plots of her stories were not suitable for kids. They seemed to be very dark and scary and I confess that I was surprised that her books were so popular with the younger generation.
Certainly if our kids had been youngsters at the time, I know I wouldn't have encouraged them to read the books and certainly not allowed them to see the movies. However all my children are adults now and my youngest daughter, married and presently expecting her first child, read all the books and saw all the movies and said she thought they were great - she admitted she thought they were dark but thought they were great adventures.
Since one of our TV stations started showing a Harry Potter movies every Friday night, I thought it might be a good time to see what they were all about and to decide firsthand if my initial impression of the author and her plots were valid or if I was just being judgemental because I didn't like her eyes.
I taped and watched them. The first one was okay, the 2nd I didn't enjoy so much and this last one, "The Prisoner of Azkaban", I thought was downright awful.
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 at
10:33 pm
That is the question!
Oh I love it … the paranoia, the neurosis, the hyperventilating at midnight ... NOT!
I sometimes wonder why I ever fell in love with ferrets as pets, and I think my poor husband curses the day that I did!!
I usually shut all the gang up in our bedroom around 5pm most evenings. Kahlua, Muis and Angus always sleep in the chest of drawers but Seamus usually spends his day sleeping in the cushions of our sofa. Read more...
