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Post by racheld on Aug 27, 2014 21:47:53 GMT -5
Remus had a choking episode this morning. I was able to pull out the offending piece of meat pretty easily, but I was wondering if there are any videos or sources around on a ferret heimlich maneuver or something of that sort?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2014 7:33:05 GMT -5
my abbey had one too last or was it earlier this week? anyway, she was choking on ribs of cornish. wat was urs choking on/ if ribs---i'll be leaving that out of diet.
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Post by Sherry on Aug 28, 2014 8:20:28 GMT -5
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Post by racheld on Aug 28, 2014 8:56:24 GMT -5
It was a long piece of meat that was already partway down his throat and he was having trouble separating it from the rest of the chunk, if that makes sense.
It happened again today but I just let him do his thing and he did manage to cough it back up. He's giving me grey hairs...
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Post by racheld on Aug 28, 2014 8:56:52 GMT -5
Thanks for the link, sherry!
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Post by msav on Aug 28, 2014 11:38:14 GMT -5
this is funny but scary. when at the sliver stage without soup. I noticed that my ferrets were swallowing whole slivers of meat without chewing. a few times they would misjudge the size of a sliver and start hacking. I have never had to intervene. they have always worked it out themselves. some hacking was so violent that they bottle brushed themselves and ran into a corner to hide. It freaks them out as much as it does you, after a few of those episodes they started chewing their meat. don't worry They will learn.
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Post by Sherry on Aug 29, 2014 7:56:52 GMT -5
One really good thing- meat is wet and slimy so getting it to go one way or the other is MUCH easier than had they choked on a hard dry piece of kibble that won't dislodge.
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