Peanut redux
Last week, I gave Peanut a bath, and I noticed blood oozing out of his left front leg. It turns out that he had a mast cell tumor there (don’t worry, MSTs are benign), and the bath had caused it to start bleeding.
I took him to an overnight vet, who suggested I have it removed. The problem is that Peanut is almost 9 years old, and a ferret’s life expectancy is 7-10 years. He’s an old man!
He went in for surgery yesterday, and thankfully, it was uneventful. He’s now trundling around like he usually does, and there’s no more blood.
He has another mast cell tumor on his leg, and I hope that doesn’t rupture too. The vet says it’ll be much more difficult to remove.
I promise more frequent updates to this blog, and I hope they’re not as gross as this one.
