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Posted by Angie on 4/27/2006, 1:51 pm, in reply to "Vulva swelling"
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They usually can't get the entire right adrenal off it's attached to the Vena Cava a large blood vein that supplies blood to the lower part of the body. They always leave the part of the adrenal that is attached to the vein in place. So every spring when a female would go into heat if she was not spayed the adrenal signals the Pituitary Gland to releases the hormones to make the ferret think she is in heat and causing her vulva to swell. Come fall when an unspayed ferret would come out of heat the Pituitary stops the hormone production and the swelling will go away. This happens in ferrets that has been spayed before their first heat cycle like Marshall Ferrets are.
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