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If your ferret has loose, grainy stools (looks like birdseed) it is malabsorption (meaning not absorbing nutrients from food), which is caused by gastrointestinal disease. Dark tarry stools means there is bleeding in the GI tract, which a ferret would need treatment ASAP.

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