My ferret, Dakota, seemed to have some kind of seizure today. I had noticed over the past couple of weeks he's been shivering a lot, like he's cold, even when the room temperature is fairly warm. I figured it might just be from weather changes combined with the fact that he's an OLD ferret, but now I'm not so sure. A little bit after noon today, I noticed he was shivering almost uncontrollably, and so I went to put some warmer bedding materials in his cage, plus a heating pad. I put him in his cage so he could rest in the warm, but then he suddenly fell off the ramp that leads to the upper portion of his cage, and lay on the bottom of the cage, drooling and kicking around like something about to die. It was really scary. I held him until it stopped, almost expecting him to die, but he came right out of it and started acting like his normal self again.

I am not sure what that was all about, but it has me really concerned for him. He does not seem to be showing any signs of insulinoma, adrenal disease, or other common ferret illnesses, so I am just stumped on this one. The soonest I can get him to the vet is Monday. In the meantime, does anyone have ideas on what may have caused this?