Rather early in the morning, we drove to the veterinarian clinic. The traffic was lighter than expected, so we arrived early. Alison is good about it and no trouble at all leaving loose to walk around the clinic. But some of the dog owners were bothered by her (not the dogs, though).

The dentist arrived, and told us he normally worked only on dogs, so this was his first ferret he treated.

This time it was really necessary to use magnifiers!
he said.

As we had weighed Alison this Friday, we skipped this step, so the vet calculated the amount of aneasthesia needed, listened to her heart and then I held her while she got an injection under the skin between the shoulder blades.

Presently, she fell asleep and lost consciousness. Since her eyes were open, she got a glob of something on each of them to keep them from drying. Then, I got to assist the dentist. (I really had expected to just leave her.) After the initial exploration of the fang, it was clear she reacted to it, so the dentist applied local aneasthesia to the area around the tooth.

Then her mouth was pinned open, with the aid of a piece of thick rubber tube treaded over both left side fangs.

The vet drilled out all living tissue and filed the inside of the fang. Careful cleaning of and then it was filled up with calcium hydroxide. All while I had to hold her head still.

When the filling had hardened, the rough edges was rounded off. During this, the dentist discovered a thin slice of tooth embedded in the gum next to the fang. Obviously, that had been a major source of irritation to her.

When all this was finished, the rubber tube was removed, which was harder than to put it in, as she wasn't as far under as then, and the jaws resisted noticable. It had also been clear she wasn't completely gone during the last part of the job, as her feet had started to move slightly, and at the end also the whiskers.

When the dentist was finished, the vet returned and gave Alison a shot that countered the aneasthesia, so she woke up in just a few minutes, and while her legs seemed shaky at first, she was almost as strong as ever.

Returned home, and had to work almost all day to keep Alison from eating, while not starving the others. Apart from that, she was her old self again in just a few hours, and after supper in the evening, she acted just like normal. Now it remains to see if the loss of half a fang will change her in any other way.