Am just back from seeing Fiona, my vet, and she doesn’t know what’s wrong with Muis 
This morning, I came into the bedroom and saw her looking strange while in the bottom of the chest of drawers. I picked her up and put her on our bed and she seemed to stagger a bit then fell over before righting herself.
It was one of those “OH NO!” moments so I called Philip and asked him to have a look at her, to see if he had any ideas. He agreed her back legs didn’t seem to be working properly so I picked her up and put her into the drawer where she sleeps.
I went to the kitchen and fixed up their smoothy, calling them while I was doing it, and both Angus and Muis came roaring into the kitchen, licking their lips. They followed me back to the bedroom where I put the dish down for them, and got stuck into the smoothy with great gusto.
It was such a change from just a few minutes ago and I felt quite relieved that Muis had reacted so positively. If I hadn’t seen her strange behaviour beforehand, I wouldn’t have thought there was a thing wrong with her as she acted 100% normal.
When I told my vet I was worried about what happened being a symptom of insulinoma, she said that if it was insulinoma, Muis wouldn’t have come racing into the kitchen – she would have been tucked up in the drawer until I put her in front of the smoothy.
She checked Muis’s stomach and there was no evidence that anything hurt her when Fiona pressed on certain organs. A good sign, I hope!
Fiona thought that it could be a neurological problem, something like epilepsy, so I was told to keep a diary handy of anything odd which I notice in Muis’s behaviour and that way she will have a better idea of what specific tests need to be done otherwise it will be a lot of money for lots of tests.
I hope it’s not insulinoma, having had my gorgeous CJ die from that 6 years ago, and I also hope it’s not anything neurological. Maybe it was heat stroke or something which made her feel funny, as it’s been a really hot day today, but since she’s always inside the house, I can’t imagine that being the cause.
Well, I will keep you posted if there is something wrong and then at least it will be a step-by-step description of the onset of a disease which hopefully will help other ferret owners in the future.
This really is the part of ferret ownership which I hate! The ominous feeling that your ferret is sick and there’s really nothing you can do to help make it better. Bah humbug
Not a very good photo, I’m sorry, but I hope you can see how filled out she is.
) – lick lick lick one side, then she climbs over my face and it’s lick lick lick the other side; then a quick snuffle through my hair before yanking out a couple of follicles and finally she goes inside the doona (quilt) cover and falls asleep.
