Post by spacecadet71 on Nov 17, 2016 10:03:35 GMT -5
I was just saying to myself 2 days ago how amazed I was by Lucky. He was almost 7 years old and he was running through the house, bouncing and playing with the other ferrets. How quickly things can change....
I noticed yesterday afternoon that he seemed to be having trouble with his one back leg. He was stumbling a little, doing a little more of the flat ferret pose. But he was still bright eyed and perked right up for tone. So I put it down to age and colder weather and figured I'd keep an eye on him. Last night about 7 I found him outside his hidey hole very limp but still responsive. Thought maybe it was his sugar, so grabbed the Karo made some soup,grabbed a syringe. He never came around and passed in my arms at 9:36. Because of his symptoms and the fastness of it all, and also what I've seen in people, I believe he had a stroke, maybe more than one.
I am finding a strange symmetry in this. I had 6 ferrets, and he was the 7th. Hence his name..Lucky, #7. Now I had 8 ferrets and with his passing I have 7.
I noticed yesterday afternoon that he seemed to be having trouble with his one back leg. He was stumbling a little, doing a little more of the flat ferret pose. But he was still bright eyed and perked right up for tone. So I put it down to age and colder weather and figured I'd keep an eye on him. Last night about 7 I found him outside his hidey hole very limp but still responsive. Thought maybe it was his sugar, so grabbed the Karo made some soup,grabbed a syringe. He never came around and passed in my arms at 9:36. Because of his symptoms and the fastness of it all, and also what I've seen in people, I believe he had a stroke, maybe more than one.
I am finding a strange symmetry in this. I had 6 ferrets, and he was the 7th. Hence his name..Lucky, #7. Now I had 8 ferrets and with his passing I have 7.
