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"Poop Chart
This list should give you an idea
 of what's going on with your ferret
 by examining the poops.


POOPS all about them.....

 

COLOR:
 
Yellow or greenish - indicates rapid transit (small bowel)

Black, tarry - indicates bleeding in the upper digetive tract

Bloody - red blood or clots indicate bleeding in the colon
 
 Pasty, light colored - indicates lack of bile (liver disease)
 
 Large, gray, rancid smelling - indicates inadequate digestion or absorption (malabsorption symdrome)
 
CONSISTENCY:
 
Watery - indicates small bowel wall irritation (toxins and severe infections)
 
Foamy - suggests a bacterial infection Greasy - often with oil on the hair around the anus; indicates malabsorption
 
 Excessive mucus - a glistening or jelly like appearance indicates colonic origin ODOR (the more watery the stool, the greater the odor):
 
Foodlike or smelling like sour milk - suggests both rapid transit and malabsorption; for example, overfeeding
 
Putrid - suggests an intestinal infection
 
 FREQUENCY:
 
Several in an hour, each small, with straining - suggests inflammation of the large bowel
 
 Three or four times daily, each large - suggests malabsorption or small bowel disorder
 
 Diarrhea which persists for several days or longer suggests a chronic ailment such as colitis, parasite infestation, or malabsorption syndrome.
 
Diarrhea is a symptom, not a disease.