I have been around lots of animals, Cats, Dogs, Ferrets, Birds and Reptiles. My granfather had a yellow lab that was the meanest, most agressive dog ever. It...
I wanted to ask the health list this question too (is that out of place to do so, Sukie?), but I thought I'd start here first. I'm darned curious if there is...
Sukie brought up two questions or areas of questioning that I did not think about asking, when I asked you all earlier about the breeding of Blazes (and...
... Anecdotally, yes all of that is true. Recall though that by definition Waardenburg Syndrome is a birth defect so all born with the traits have a defect. ...
Bill makes a good point that people should not be trying to excuse introducing handicaps to ferrets by saying that the individuals usually get along fine. ...
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Craniofacial disorders such as cleft palate.........does anything like this happen in ferrets? How can you tell a ferret can't open their jaw as much as...
It's not really common but people with WS can have Hirschsprungs disease along with it. This birth defect leaves the subject with the large intestine missing...
... Those aren't always hard to spot in lines with the defects. There tends to also often be marked non-bilateral head coloration of the fur or skin or the...
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Feb 25, 2003 2:57 am
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... There are opiates used in some cases which actually help with progress through the intestinal tract, but if more than a tiny portion is affected then...
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Check out this E.polecat/E.mink hybrid: http://www.lutreola.ee/gfx/pics/valitud_pildid/04.jpg Except for a few details it's amazingly similar to the regular...
So are you saying that aortic arch defects of the heart.. are different then the type of heart problems that can be associated with WS and KIT? Wolfy Wolfy's...
... I don't know off-hand of any circulatory defects that are related to WS or KIT. Guess I'll have to re-read about those. Not sure if there are any. The...
Klez.E is the most common world-wide spreading worm.It's very dangerous by corrupting your files. Because of its very smart stealth and anti-anti-virus...
Interesting. Has someone attached a "free virus fix' message to an actual virus or worm... Anyway, handle it carefully....
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Feb 27, 2003 7:32 pm
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... I hadn't read of any either, until this past week. I found more than one site talking about them. I thought "How did I miss this", ya know? I'm so tied...
http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:1LWHPWoOcNAC:www.cellbio.duke.edu/ The aortic arch is developed from some of the neural crest cells. But how, and when,...
... i wonder if they actually know of any real heart defects that are or may be connected, if someone is postulating, or if someone got confused with a...
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Feb 28, 2003 4:02 am
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... Oh, potentially interesting article! Of course, that doesn't necessarily mean that there is any over-lap between this and other genetic crest defects like...
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Feb 28, 2003 5:51 am
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Okay, Steve showed me how to blow up the things on the screen from the system instead of the browser so I did a little re-read (but I need more and I sure...
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Feb 28, 2003 9:56 pm
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Look what I accidentally sent to the FML instead of to here: ... I'll bet I confused everyone there who isn't a member of ferret-genetics......
In a message dated 03/01/2003 12:58:25 PM Eastern Standard Time, ... Yes, but much of this is "over my head" so I couldn't make heads or tails out of it...
If a kit or kitten, pup, etc had such gross heart defects... would they survive okay? Would it be one of those things where the babies die shortly after...
In a message dated 02/28/2003 1:34:23 PM Eastern Standard Time, ... No, I didn't, and that kind of confuses me. I wonder also, if this "Leopard" thing means...
... That wasn't clear to me, but I went from the article thinking that it might be possible and might be a cause of fetal death in them. Most of the...
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Mar 2, 2003 9:26 pm
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... A lot depends on the individual and on the degree of the problem. The person I knew (cause not known then -- in the 60s -- but they were advised to not...