Arlene
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I apologize for being so late with this update. We just discovered that my 8 month old ferret, Melina, has intestinal cancer and I've been trying to figure out how to help her.
Megan isn't any worse and may be a bit better. I say that mostly because it is hard to tell. Saturday night she got her tail caught in something. or dragged it across something sharp. We are not sure what exactly but we suspect she got under the chair leg. That's where Frank found her and realized she was hurt because he saw blood. It didn't bleed much, especially for a tail, but looked awful, like someone took something thin and scraped the skin off of it vertically. The scrape is about 2 inches long but not very deep. It's developed a good scab and I think she's going to be alright. I gave her Metacam that night and she was already on Chloramphenicol. I can't tell you how upset we were. We try so hard to keep them safe but accidents still happen. However, because of the injury, it's hard to tell if her tail is better or not. Hopefully, after that heals then she will continue to improve.
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Megan isn't any worse and may be a bit better. I say that mostly because it is hard to tell. Saturday night she got her tail caught in something. or dragged it across something sharp. We are not sure what exactly but we suspect she got under the chair leg. That's where Frank found her and realized she was hurt because he saw blood. It didn't bleed much, especially for a tail, but looked awful, like someone took something thin and scraped the skin off of it vertically. The scrape is about 2 inches long but not very deep. It's developed a good scab and I think she's going to be alright. I gave her Metacam that night and she was already on Chloramphenicol. I can't tell you how upset we were. We try so hard to keep them safe but accidents still happen. However, because of the injury, it's hard to tell if her tail is better or not. Hopefully, after that heals then she will continue to improve.
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