2 dead ferrets last week morning

[Beastmaster1980 40]

What the ......? What are you talking about, who do you know that would feed dead cats to a ferret? Hes talking about feral pigeons you head the ball!!!!!!

[nehunter73 2]

I had the same problem a couple of years since with my jills. Perfectly healthy, bouncing one minute dead the next. Had a pal who had the same problem year after year, but only happened with his jill's also. We've put it down to some kind of hormone because they're not being lined when they're in season. We've never lost one now in years.

[Coneytrappr 30]

Have to admit that my ferrets have dined on both types of feral before, with no ill effects.

 

Without taking the stinkers in for a PM there's no way to know for sure what killed them. I had a youngish jill do nearly exactly that- fine one day, flat out and near to death when I went out to check them the next morning. She died shortly after going to the vet and for the sake of curiosity had a PM done...which revealed that the jill was riddled through with 'Lymphatic Cancer', which is apparently a very aggressive disease which effects ferrets under two years of age. There is a slower progressing form that affects older ferrets as well.