The quality of the poop of a ferret is an important indicator to see if it is healthy.
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Normal poop: This is what you want to see. A normal poop is tubular in shape, Its consistency is smooth and homogeneous and is brown. |
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Green poop: A very nonspecific sign, means that the food moves too quickly. The brown color usually seen in the stool of death is the end product of old red blood cells. The feces pass through a pigment called biliverdin and then turns brown (called stercobilin). Then, If the food passes into an accelerated pace, not completed the whole process and I remain green. There are several reasons why it happens, For example, the ECE, rapid changes in food, lymphoma, and more. |
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Black poop: Often a sign of gastric bleeding and usually associated with gastric ulcers. There must be an abundant amount of blood in the stomach to make the stool black. The color is the result of digestion of the blood, that normally occurs only in the stomach. |
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Poop with the presence of blood: If you see fresh blood in the stool, usually comes from the intestine or rectum (if small doses). If the amount of blood is abundant, could come from the entire length of the intestinal tract. An excessive amount of blood can be caused either by severe hemorrhage gastica, drain da shock e, As you can imagine, is a worrying sign. |
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Poop with granules(as if they were seeds): It is usually a sign of poor digestion or malabsorption. There is a specific symptom, can be caused by any disease that affects the small intestine. It happens often in the presence of ECE, the granules are given by complex of fat and starch undigested. When I made that notice of, Consider a change of diet with foods more easily digestible. |
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Poop with foreign elements: Symptom of a partial bowel obstruction, given by foreign bodies, in this photo it is a stick of ice cream. |
Well, this is not a comment as much as a qtuoeisn about my Ferret named Momo whom I adopted from a pet store that really did not take good care of their pets.My ferret is close to a year old and he still refuses to become litter trained and is also a bully with my cat when it comes to sharing food out of a dish. (So you know my cat is trained to eat out of his dish, a red one, and the ferret refuses to eat out of his dish, a blue one, when he sees my cat eating out of his red dish.)I was wondering if you have any suggestions on how to train a ferret to be more well behaved and use a litter box?I have trained numbers of other animals from cats, dogs, birds, and even different rodents but I never had so much trouble with this critter.Any help would be most kind and rewarding.
To teach the exercises to ferret, progressively decreasing the amount of premiums or stop altogether to reward him when obeys. Limited to reward him with cuddling on the head or a hug. After some time you will learn and your way of telling him that it was good.