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This is the term for a male rabbit.
What is a buck?
This is the term for a female guinea pig.
What is a sow?
Ferrets reflexively do this when you scruff them.
What is yawn?
A specialized part of hamster mouths used to store extra food; lack lymphoid tissue.
What are cheek pouches?
Also known as night feces.
What are cecotrophs?
A term used to describe young born with eyes open, capable of eating solid food.
What is precocious?
These are the 2 canine diseases that ferrets should be vaccinated against.
What are rabies and distemper?
Bilateral sebaceous glands use in mating and marking territory; more prominent in males than in females.
What are flank glands?
This is the medical term for a hairball.
What is trichobezoar?
This disease can occur in guinea pigs that do not get enough vitamin C from their diet.
What is scurvy?
Ferrets can eat this type of commercial diet if ferret food is not readily available.
What is cat food?
Hamsters may be stimulated into this extended period of sleep by cold temperatures, low food supply, or shortened light cycles.
What is hibernation?
This is the common name for moist dermatitis in rabbits.
What is slobbers?
Guinea pigs should be bred before this age to avoid life threatening dystocia.
What is 6 months?
Female ferrets not intended for breeding should be spayed to avoid this.
What is hyperestrogenism?
This is the most common cause of death in old hamsters.
What is amyloidosis?
This is a common condition in female rabbits caused by mounting by female cage mates or the introduction of a new male.
What is pseudopregnancy?
This is the most common bacterial disease of guinea pigs.
This is a viral disease that humans can pass to their ferrets.
What is influenza?
The most common infectious disease of hamsters. AKA "wet tail."
What is proliferative ileitis?