Hi Michele
You won't belive this when I tell you that my 7 year
old west highland white terrier, Monty, has suffered
with Colitis on and off throughout his life! He has
always had trouble with his bowels (I think he doesn't
drink enough) but on a few occasions I have had to
take him to our vet because he has had bloody
diaorrhea. The vet has given him an injection adn
tablets similar to mesalazine on each occasion. Isn't
it odd, the vet said it may be through drinking from
puddles but am not so sure. My hubby can't quite
believe it himself - says we are too alike!
I am now feeding him a very moist meaty dog food which
seems to have helped but also since we have had our
fish pond in May he has been drinking more from it!
(It must be the most expensive dog bowl in history)

Hope your ferret is soon feeling better

love

Helen
--- hydra_girl_101 <hydra_girl_101@...> wrote:

> Hi all, I had to take one of my ferrets to the vet
> at the weekend
> cause he'd been a bit under the weather for a while,
> then all Friday
> night he had the big D. It turns out he has colitis
> of all things! The
> vet said it's not quite the same as ulcerative
> colitis in humans but
> I've been trying to find out more information about
> it and not having
> much luck, anyone know anything useful? I just feel
> so sorry for him,
> at least when I had Crohn's I could be told what was
> wrong with me and
> knew what symptoms I was going to get, poor little
> love hasn't got a
> clue what's going on.
>
> Michele
>
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