How many ferrets will develop adrenal disease?
Ah, the $64,000 question. We don’t know of any actual source from a study for any sort of hard number. Our shelter population can’t tell us much, since we see critters for a short time in their life, often receive ferrets in middle to older age and even receive some because they are already affected by adrenal disease. We recommend you plan for your ferret to have surgery at some point in life, which might be for adrenal disease, a blockage, etc. While not all ferrets have surgery by any means, if you’re doing what you can to be responsible, stick $500 in an account for your ferret – or build up to that amount for each ferret you have. Then you’ll be able to handle 3 of your ferrets of 7 developing adrenal disease in the same year! 🙂 What is the outcome…is adrenal disease painful or fatal? Left untreated, adrenal disease can become very advanced and end up as a wasting disease that, while it doesn’t seem to be painful, will eventually cause death. Of course if cancer is the root cau
