Update on Gwin

[milleniumgypsy]

Thank you everyone for your well wishes for Gwin! I've just been too much of a stressball to reply or update. n_n' I really apprieciated all of the support though! *hugs everyone*

Gwin is still with us, though he's not doing so well. I'm hoping that he'll be ok, we've been giving him all the TLC (and baby food) that he can stand until he tries to wiggle out of our arms. Which is good that he has the energy to want to do that, even if he tires himself out too fast once he's down.

In other pet news, when I went in to work on Monday I found that one of my bettas had died. I immediately cleaned the tank, luckily the snail was alright. And now my single betta (I had a large divided tank) has the whole tank to himself. At least he was having a good day? Though he decided with all the space in the world that he was still going to go rest behind the filter. He is certainly exploring a lot of the time but I found that sort of silly.

Still, while worrying that Gwin was going to die the last thing I wanted to see was another dead pet. :S

Comments

[du-secondaire.livejournal.com]

Glad he is still with you! Did the vet know what's wrong with him?

[invsagoth.livejournal.com]

He wasn't 100% certain of the diagnosis, but the vet said that he didn't work with ferrets all that often. Gwin has adrenal disease unfortenely, which we had been worried about since he'd recently started losing fur (but not in the usual hair loss pattern for it), we'd hoped it was just a lot of spring shedding. That is complicating any other diagnosis, and we were worried that exploratory surgery would be too much for him right now (and that's not getting into the financial part of that).

The vet also thinks that Gwin is older than we originally thought he was, but I'm going to give the people on Craigslist the benefit of the doubt on that since we're at least Gwin's 4th home and they didn't know much if anything about ferrets.