However, treatment for 4 weeks was not curative. My doxie Rusty ran away in a panic the night of the terrible thunder and lightning storm last month, and hasn't been seen since. Please watch for him, Richard, if he shows up with new owners. In California the fish and game department will arrest you for owning a ferret and arrest me for treating one. California regards ferrets as wild animals.
All wild animals have protection from the fish and game department.
The public is not allowed to capture and hold a wild animal without a permit. The idea is to protect the wildlife population from the people population. I would think that the tip of their nose would be a sun-sensitive spot. They are in the equine world. The white animals are in big trouble with sunlight.