The Senior Ferret (Mustela Putorius Furo)

Ferrets are an increasingly popular pet in the United States. They are active, gregarious pets that delight their owners with playful antics. One of the issues that ferret owners and veterinarians have had to deal with is their shortened life span. Although literature cites the life span of the ferr...

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Autor principal: Hoppes, Sharman M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7129291/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20159545
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cvex.2009.12.002
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description Ferrets are an increasingly popular pet in the United States. They are active, gregarious pets that delight their owners with playful antics. One of the issues that ferret owners and veterinarians have had to deal with is their shortened life span. Although literature cites the life span of the ferret as 8 to 10 years, most veterinarians see ferrets as “old” at as early as 3 years of age. Most information on senior ferrets has focused on neoplastic diseases. This article discusses husbandry and nutritional issues of the aging ferret, more commonly seen geriatric diseases, and diagnostic and treatment options.
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spelling pubmed-71292912020-04-06 The Senior Ferret (Mustela Putorius Furo) Hoppes, Sharman M. Vet Clin North Am Exot Anim Pract Article Ferrets are an increasingly popular pet in the United States. They are active, gregarious pets that delight their owners with playful antics. One of the issues that ferret owners and veterinarians have had to deal with is their shortened life span. Although literature cites the life span of the ferret as 8 to 10 years, most veterinarians see ferrets as “old” at as early as 3 years of age. Most information on senior ferrets has focused on neoplastic diseases. This article discusses husbandry and nutritional issues of the aging ferret, more commonly seen geriatric diseases, and diagnostic and treatment options. Elsevier Inc. 2010-01 2010-02-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7129291/ /pubmed/20159545 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cvex.2009.12.002 Text en Copyright © 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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