Hi All,

My 7 year old ferret was recently diagnosed with Lymphoma, although not actually tested via biopsy.
Was mainly from ultra sound and X-ray detecting areas that could be tumours. Also over the past 2 months he has
developed small pea size lumps under his tummy skin, so assume these are tumours?

We were given prednisolone 1mg tablets to give twice per day, however we decided to only give a 1/2 mg 
and even with that his behaviour and energy levels has decreased quite a lot with hind legs becoming much 
weaker that before meds.

As in the title, he over the past 4-6 weeks, developed yellow coloured nails, and the past few weeks have all (on the back)
broken off down to the 'quick', but not bled. The front are now starting to break off and he is obviously unable to walk very well due to this too.

So a few things i am slightly confused about: 1 - shouldn't the meds actually boost him not bring him down, and 2. what might be causing the nails to completely break off...  the web search cam up with nothing, but we can't be the only ones? 


PS - he did loose a fair bit of weight due to dehydration, so went on a drip for a weekend, but now eats and drinks as normally as ever - but his activity level is way down, so want to know - should we persist with meds?

Thank you