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RE: My Ferrets
January 23, 2012 at 5:31 pm
Am I evil in finding the cancerous tendencies of ferrets to be interesting? A cursory glance through the incidents of "ferrets" and "cancer" on Google would suggest the chances to developing cancer in ferrets to be rather high.
I wonder if some aspect of their functioning contributes to such on a repeatable basis.
The thought does occur to me that keeping animals alive longer than they survive in the wild would reveal the unstable, long term consequences of their particular construction.
Were that the case, that living longer for a pet provokes a damaging, painful disease, what would your protocols for handling them be, for their end-of-life?
What would the 'right thing to do' be?
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RE: My Ferrets
January 29, 2012 at 10:56 pm
Sort of like miniature otters eh Rhizo??
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RE: My Ferrets
January 30, 2012 at 1:31 pm
They have a cream rinse for ferrets that neutralize the smell for 2 weeks
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RE: My Ferrets
January 30, 2012 at 2:00 pm
Hmm, interesting. I've used a melon smelling stuff called Ferret sheen.
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RE: My Ferrets
January 30, 2012 at 4:09 pm
All small rodents seem to be prone to cancer, my wife keeps hamsters and I have a friend who recently lost a rat to the big C.
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RE: My Ferrets
January 31, 2012 at 1:47 am
Sorry DBP but I don't think Ferrets (et al) are rodents.
I AM of the opinion that these creatures are very short lived and because they are pets their life expectancy is lengthened so as to include these diseases like cancer
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RE: My Ferrets
January 31, 2012 at 1:59 am
I had to go with "I can't stand ferrets."
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