Julie Thomas wrote:
> Last week I was holding Pippin and kept feeling something on his belly
> rubbing against my hand. I lifted up his back end to look, and he
> apparently has a scent gland tumor!
>
> It looks like it's about 1/4" in diameter. Last night it was bleeding;
> I assume he'd been picking at it, chewing on it.
>
> How quickly do these things need to be dealt with? My local "gerbil
> vet" doesn't have the gas anesthetic. My former vet might be willing to
> do the surgery, but I don't know if she has the isofluorane gas. . . I
> need to call and check.
I'd put him on antibiotics immediately to prevent or at least slow
infection, and keep trying to find a vet ASAP.
>
>
> Before I knew about scent gland tumors and that they could be removed,
> one of my gerbils wasted away and died with one. I really don't want to
> see that happen again, but I'm not sure I can find a vet that uses gas
> and is willing to do surgery on a gerbil.
>
> Mostly I'm just venting. . . I would like to know how fast such things
> progress. I seem to remember poor Frodo lasted awhile, but don't recall
> how long.
>
I'm not sure, but if he's chewing at it, there's a very real danger of
infection and I think that's probably the most immediate danger . . .
>
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