Post by huronna on Oct 25, 2008 10:11:14 GMT -5
Mittens
July 8 1997 - April 14 2000
Mittens was the Sweetest creature that God has ever sent us. She never failed to greet us when we got home from a hard day at work. Just by seeing her all the problem of the day would melt away.
Mittens was interactive, always getting your attention by standing up. If that didn't work she would move and try again. If that was unsuccessful, she would lay on your leg. When she got your attention she would run off, spining in circles to see if you were giving chase. Very seldom would she miss the litter box and when bed time came around, she usally cound be found in the cage rolled up in her favorite blue blanket.
Mittens was a kisser. No matter what she was doing if you picked her up she always had a Very Wet and Sloppy Kiss for you. She also Danced alot and during Brawls she was the most Dookiest of the bunch. She still be Dooking a few minutes after it broke up.
She developed multiple forms of cancer in her Adrenal Glands, Spleen, Pancreas and in her Lympn Nodes. She headed to the Rainbow Bridge an hour after surgery.
We buired her beside our first Ferret, Binkie on a Softly Snowing Peacful Spring day. God please take care of her, we will miss her so much. ^..^
Slinky and Slurpee
Slurpee passed away on July 20, 2000 and Slinky passed away on July 22, 2000.
I will always remember you two playing tag and ball together. You brought so much joy to our hearts. We will never forget you and we will love you forever. Have fun up there with your brother Snickers. We will see your cute little fuzzy faces again someday soon. Until then we will think about you every day and miss you. We love you babies.
Love Mommy & Daddy ( K & D )
Ricky Ticky Tabby
April 10 1995--August 28, 2000
He was name after a cartoon mongose, When I frist saw you on the day you were born. I got to to bring you home at the sweet age of 6 weeks, so very tiny and sweet, you never ever bit.you were loved so very much , you grew up to be a very big boy, A beautful dark sable with the pecifict mask, we'll miss your loving kisses that you always gave to your dad and I , and the funny things you did to make us both laught, you gave love and kiss up to the end. you were diagnose with cancer, which finely spread into the lungs , I could"nt see you suffer, no matter how we tryed to save you, I have you put to sleep on Augest 28 at the tender age of 5 years 4 months . you were a very loving friend, your dad and I will love and miss you ,and think of you always, RAINBOW BRIDGE please take good care of my big fellow, until we meet again, I LOVE YOU .
love Mom & Dad, ( Robin & Dan )
Weizi
Weizi crossed over to the Bridge at 3:00 AM Friday night. I laid on the floor with her wrapped in a blanket she loved until she passed. The reason some of you didn't know she was sick is because I did not post about it. Weizi crashed so quickly there was no time. Thursday night was when she got real bad and I talked about it to those in chat and everyone was very helpful and caring. Weizi was only part of our family for one month. She was a Marshall albino girl who started life in a Texas Wal-Mart. A woman bought her and named her Weizi and she grew up for 5 years with this woman and a dog and a cat. The woman lived 2 hours north of me and was moving out of state. She moved with her dog and her cat but for reasons she would not explain she said she could not take Weizi. So I took her. I drove up and drove her home. Weizi was terrified of my 8 other ferrets. So we let her have her own space where she felt safe. We called her our "movie ferret" because she would sit between us on our bed and watch videos with us. She sat on my lap while I worked on the computer. She was small. She was ill and gradually it was obvious she had something very wrong. We tried to help her in every way we knew how, were told how, were suggested how. It's just too much for me right now to explain everything we tried. Thursday night I thought there was still hope. I told her she couldn't leave me yet that I wanted to give her happiness here. That I loved her from the first moment I saw her. But she was tired. Friday night she looked at me and I knew it was her time and she had somewhere else to go. Still, we tried what we could. We were getting ready to go to a 24 hour clinic but we looked and she said No. We laid with her instead until she slipped away. I have always been told by vets, friends and books that ferrets go down quickly when their illness strikes. I know by Marshall standards Weizi was an old gal. But I have never seen a little creature be so sick so fast and so helpless and little and sad. I'm sorry- I just miss her now and it's taken me to now to post this. I have been awake since 7AM Friday morning. We lost our power this afternoon and in Phoenix in the summer the house heats up fast. I cried so hard thinking all my ferrets would die from the heat. I was going to put them all in the car and turn on the AC when it came back on. Then I couldn't find Flowers & Nancy. They had somehow ripped open the bottom corrugated power stapled and taped to our big leather chair and they were in there. They never knew Weizi but they went to where she died and they knew. It was so sad. I am trying very hard to feel that I did not fail this little girl. If I hadn't taken her home she would have gone to a shelter. I am trying very hard to understand why she was so sick so fast and I am trying to understand I did not fail her. But I feel that I did. We buried Weizi out in the desert because we do not have a yard. We have only a very small patch of dirt not big enough for a burial so instead I buried her little hammock and marked it with pretty desert rocks so I could have part of here at my home. This has been a very hard 48 hours for us. We have all this soup and medicine and towels and blankets and they all smell of her. I am hoping that maybe Pia and Sam are her friends. Pia looks so much like her and Sam is skinny like Weizi and maybe he knows that Pippi and me are friends. Before Weizi died I whispered to her and told her all about the Bridge. I told her that she would no longer be afraid of ferrets there and that she would learn to dook and dance there with them. Maybe Pia and Sam have been teaching her now. Maybe she finally knows how to play and eat treats. Because she didn't here. The only thing that she ever even stole was a piece of tinfoil from a wrapper. She never even arched her back. She just slept on me and listened. I told her she would be pain free and happy there and be able to jump and run. I hope she is there now and happy. I don't know why that woman gave Weizi up- why she chose to take her dog and cat but not Weizi. I suppose it isn't for me to judge. All I can say is Mark and I tried our best to make her happy and to have her pass feeling love. I hope she did. I hope she didn't die scared and lost because it's how she must have felt leaving the only family she'd ever known. I'm so sorry this is so long but you are the only people I know that can understand any of this and I needed to get this out of me. Thank you for listening. Please give a very special ferret a moment of silence - Weizi we love you and we'll miss you always.
Lily,Mark and the fuzzy desert dwellers
Bandit
He crossed over the rainbow bridge on July 4th. Tuesday night i ran him to the emergency room and the vets found a prostate tumor and beginning signs of adreanal. The tumor was so large that it was cutting off his urinal track. They gave me my options, and the prognosis wasn't good. So, I made the decision to end his suffereing and let him go peacefully and painlessly.
I sit and wonder if i made the right decision. If i put him through the surgery, would he have made it? Or would it have just prolonged the suffering?
I just want Bandit to know that I love him and i hope he understands my decision. He was a sweet ferret, and so funny. He loved to steal shoes and hide my husbands remote control. We are going to miss watching him dook around the bedroom and start fights with the others. We pray that you are happy and no longer in pain.
We miss you, sweetness.
Your mom, Sabelblaze
Samantha
APRIL 13, 2000
ON A STARY NIGHT, WHILE CRICKETS SING
AND THE TREE WHICH HOLDS A SPECIAL
FRIEND WHISPERS SOFTLY.
I REMINISE THROUGH THE MEMORIES WE SHARED.
THE DR. PEPPER WHICH YOU LOVED SO MUCH, AND WOULD
SOMETIMES SNORT UP YOUR NOSE. THE GRAPES CUT UP JUST THE WAY YOU LIKED, IT WAS SO CUTE THE WAY YOUR LITTLE NOSE WOULD WRINKLE AND YOUR EYES WOULD SPARKLE.
THE MOUSE LIKE SQUEAK YOU MADE WHEN YOU WERE WEASEL WAR DANCING. THE SHOULDER RIDES AT THE MEDIVAL FAIR, THE WET KISSES, THE EAR NUZZLES, THE WAY THE VET'S USED TO CALL YOU OVER WEIGHT.
THROUGH ALL YOU WERE STRONG, I'LL ALWAYS REMEMBER AND LOVE YOU. MY SAMANTHA.
SAMANTHA CAME INTO OUR LIVES WHEN WE FOUND AN ADD IN THE LOCAL PAPER, FEMALE FERRET W/ CAGE $100, SHE WAS THE CUTEST THING I HAD EVER SEEN, ONLY A YEAR OLD. SHE MOVED WITH US TO MANY DIFFERENT PLACES, AND EVEN THROUGH THE VERY HARD TIMES OF 1999. SHE OUTLIVED TWO OTHER FURRY FRIENDS. SHE NEVER BIT ANYONE, AND WAS ALWAYS THE PROPER LADY, SHE LOVED TO NUZZLE AND TO BE HELD, RUN AROUND ANYWHERE AND EVERYWHERE. SHE LIVED TO THE AGE OF 7. SHE BECAME ILL SHORTLY AFTER THE END OF FEBUARY. AND WENT DOWN HILL FROM THERE. THE DOCTOR BELIEVED IT TO BE INSULINOMA, HE PUT HER ON STEROIDS AND FLUIDS. SHE DID GREAT, EVEN GAINED A LITTLE WEIGHT. BUT AFTER MOVING TO OUR NEW HOUSE, AND WAS PUT TO REST ON APRIL 13. AND IS NOW BURIED UNDER A TREE IN THE BACK YARD. WITH A BEAUTIFUL ANGEL WATCHING OVER HER. WE MISS YOU DEARLY, AND WILL NEVER FORGET THAT SWEET LITTLE FACE.
Allie
1994-2002
Allie,my 8 yr old female passed away last night at 832 pm of old age complications.Basically shed given up.When I rescued her ,she came with 2 others who passed away 2 yrs ago due to ECE.Since their deaths,she hasnt been the same.she will be sorely missed by fuzzies and humans alike .She was a very beautiful sable with very distinct markings and a burgundy undertone to her guard hairs.She was always very playful and loveable and loved her pink soccer ball that was one of my photographer props few years ago.Shed drag that thing back and forth,no one else was allowed to play with it.
Stormspirit
Billy Mouse
PT's Little Love
Rusty
4 weeks ago you came into my life and turned it upside down. You are such a sweet little boy and I am so happy and honored that you came into my life, even if it was only for a short time.
Today u found the courage to tell me that you didn't want to go on.
I know that you are at this moment making that trip across the rainbow bridge. Once you get there you will finally be at peace. No more needles and no more medicine. Your body will stop trembling in pain, and you'll be able to lift up your head and pick up those useless limbs and begin to walk and dance again.
I am so sorry that your former owners abandoned you. But, if they hadn't, we would have never met. And you never would have known real love.
Rusty, please know that mommy loves you and i will miss you SO very very much. The only thing that will keep me going is knowing the fact that you are safe now and in the hands of god!
We will see each other again someday.
Sheri
(sableblaze)
Rikki
Rikki was the sweetest little ferret. He loved to play and chase me around the room. Even though his life on earth was short. He brought alot of laughs and love into this home. We aren't sure why Rikki left us. Only god knows the answer. All i know is that i am very upset about it and i am having a hard time dealing with the fact that i never got to say goodbye. I never got too look into his beautiful pink eyes and tell him i love him.
I hope Rikki knows just how much we do
love him, and that we miss him SO very much.
Sableblaze
Tigger 1998-2002
A beautiful ferret that died too soon. My first ferret, I will miss you and love you always. I will always remember the way you scratched my leg to let me know that you wanted to sit on my shoulders to watch me wash dishes. I love you Tigger, and I miss you and your brothers and sisters miss you. We will never forget you. Joey
Weezie
I WOULD LIKE TO DEDICATE THIS TIME TO MY FERRET FOR 9 YEARS WHOM WAS ONE OF MY MANY ANIMAL CHILDREN "WEEZIE" SHE WAS VERY SPECIAL TO ME , HOW TO DESCRIBE HER WAS LIKE THIS SWEET, NOSEY, LOVES EVERYONE AND EVERYONE LOVED HER TOO I LOST HER TO KIDNEY FAILURE ON SEPTEMBER 16TH 2002 AT 8:32 AM . I KNOW NOW THAT SHE IS GODS LITTLE COMPANION NOW . "I LOVE YOU WEEZIE FOREVER AND ALWAYS "
YOUR MOM, HANNAH BRYANT
FUJI
My Fuji (Foofer) died last nite in his sleep. I knew that he had finally given up the fight when he stopped eating his soup. He was 7 yrs old. He came from a shelter with his cagemates, Sasha & Nikki. He was 4 when I got him and he had been an only ferret that had spent much of his life in a cage and walked on a leash for exercise. In the last 3 years he had learned how to dance and play with the others. He had a black dot on his nose that he wiggled when he sniffed stuff. His last year was adrennal operation and nodes from his pancreas. He came through that with flying colors but his IBD kicked in again( which we battled the year before and got it under control) no medicine or lupron helped. He was bald and thin since his food went right through him. My vet suspected cancer of the pancreas since the tests came back abnormal. She felt that it triggered the IBD...that and the stress of the operation. He was quite the fighter for life and never whimpered. I could tell by his eyes in the last few days that he was just exhausted....Last nite when I checked on him, he put his head out the opening and licked my fingers. I pet him and could feel that his body temp was cool instead of toasty warm...I told him that I loved him and that it was ok to go...I found him with his nose out the opening of his security cube this morning......I have lost other treasured pets (horses, cats, & dogs) but this is my first ferret....it NEVER gets easier......Tootsies 8 and missing 1
July 8 1997 - April 14 2000
Mittens was the Sweetest creature that God has ever sent us. She never failed to greet us when we got home from a hard day at work. Just by seeing her all the problem of the day would melt away.
Mittens was interactive, always getting your attention by standing up. If that didn't work she would move and try again. If that was unsuccessful, she would lay on your leg. When she got your attention she would run off, spining in circles to see if you were giving chase. Very seldom would she miss the litter box and when bed time came around, she usally cound be found in the cage rolled up in her favorite blue blanket.
Mittens was a kisser. No matter what she was doing if you picked her up she always had a Very Wet and Sloppy Kiss for you. She also Danced alot and during Brawls she was the most Dookiest of the bunch. She still be Dooking a few minutes after it broke up.
She developed multiple forms of cancer in her Adrenal Glands, Spleen, Pancreas and in her Lympn Nodes. She headed to the Rainbow Bridge an hour after surgery.
We buired her beside our first Ferret, Binkie on a Softly Snowing Peacful Spring day. God please take care of her, we will miss her so much. ^..^
Slinky and Slurpee
Slurpee passed away on July 20, 2000 and Slinky passed away on July 22, 2000.
I will always remember you two playing tag and ball together. You brought so much joy to our hearts. We will never forget you and we will love you forever. Have fun up there with your brother Snickers. We will see your cute little fuzzy faces again someday soon. Until then we will think about you every day and miss you. We love you babies.
Love Mommy & Daddy ( K & D )
Ricky Ticky Tabby
April 10 1995--August 28, 2000
He was name after a cartoon mongose, When I frist saw you on the day you were born. I got to to bring you home at the sweet age of 6 weeks, so very tiny and sweet, you never ever bit.you were loved so very much , you grew up to be a very big boy, A beautful dark sable with the pecifict mask, we'll miss your loving kisses that you always gave to your dad and I , and the funny things you did to make us both laught, you gave love and kiss up to the end. you were diagnose with cancer, which finely spread into the lungs , I could"nt see you suffer, no matter how we tryed to save you, I have you put to sleep on Augest 28 at the tender age of 5 years 4 months . you were a very loving friend, your dad and I will love and miss you ,and think of you always, RAINBOW BRIDGE please take good care of my big fellow, until we meet again, I LOVE YOU .
love Mom & Dad, ( Robin & Dan )
Weizi
Weizi crossed over to the Bridge at 3:00 AM Friday night. I laid on the floor with her wrapped in a blanket she loved until she passed. The reason some of you didn't know she was sick is because I did not post about it. Weizi crashed so quickly there was no time. Thursday night was when she got real bad and I talked about it to those in chat and everyone was very helpful and caring. Weizi was only part of our family for one month. She was a Marshall albino girl who started life in a Texas Wal-Mart. A woman bought her and named her Weizi and she grew up for 5 years with this woman and a dog and a cat. The woman lived 2 hours north of me and was moving out of state. She moved with her dog and her cat but for reasons she would not explain she said she could not take Weizi. So I took her. I drove up and drove her home. Weizi was terrified of my 8 other ferrets. So we let her have her own space where she felt safe. We called her our "movie ferret" because she would sit between us on our bed and watch videos with us. She sat on my lap while I worked on the computer. She was small. She was ill and gradually it was obvious she had something very wrong. We tried to help her in every way we knew how, were told how, were suggested how. It's just too much for me right now to explain everything we tried. Thursday night I thought there was still hope. I told her she couldn't leave me yet that I wanted to give her happiness here. That I loved her from the first moment I saw her. But she was tired. Friday night she looked at me and I knew it was her time and she had somewhere else to go. Still, we tried what we could. We were getting ready to go to a 24 hour clinic but we looked and she said No. We laid with her instead until she slipped away. I have always been told by vets, friends and books that ferrets go down quickly when their illness strikes. I know by Marshall standards Weizi was an old gal. But I have never seen a little creature be so sick so fast and so helpless and little and sad. I'm sorry- I just miss her now and it's taken me to now to post this. I have been awake since 7AM Friday morning. We lost our power this afternoon and in Phoenix in the summer the house heats up fast. I cried so hard thinking all my ferrets would die from the heat. I was going to put them all in the car and turn on the AC when it came back on. Then I couldn't find Flowers & Nancy. They had somehow ripped open the bottom corrugated power stapled and taped to our big leather chair and they were in there. They never knew Weizi but they went to where she died and they knew. It was so sad. I am trying very hard to feel that I did not fail this little girl. If I hadn't taken her home she would have gone to a shelter. I am trying very hard to understand why she was so sick so fast and I am trying to understand I did not fail her. But I feel that I did. We buried Weizi out in the desert because we do not have a yard. We have only a very small patch of dirt not big enough for a burial so instead I buried her little hammock and marked it with pretty desert rocks so I could have part of here at my home. This has been a very hard 48 hours for us. We have all this soup and medicine and towels and blankets and they all smell of her. I am hoping that maybe Pia and Sam are her friends. Pia looks so much like her and Sam is skinny like Weizi and maybe he knows that Pippi and me are friends. Before Weizi died I whispered to her and told her all about the Bridge. I told her that she would no longer be afraid of ferrets there and that she would learn to dook and dance there with them. Maybe Pia and Sam have been teaching her now. Maybe she finally knows how to play and eat treats. Because she didn't here. The only thing that she ever even stole was a piece of tinfoil from a wrapper. She never even arched her back. She just slept on me and listened. I told her she would be pain free and happy there and be able to jump and run. I hope she is there now and happy. I don't know why that woman gave Weizi up- why she chose to take her dog and cat but not Weizi. I suppose it isn't for me to judge. All I can say is Mark and I tried our best to make her happy and to have her pass feeling love. I hope she did. I hope she didn't die scared and lost because it's how she must have felt leaving the only family she'd ever known. I'm so sorry this is so long but you are the only people I know that can understand any of this and I needed to get this out of me. Thank you for listening. Please give a very special ferret a moment of silence - Weizi we love you and we'll miss you always.
Lily,Mark and the fuzzy desert dwellers
Bandit
He crossed over the rainbow bridge on July 4th. Tuesday night i ran him to the emergency room and the vets found a prostate tumor and beginning signs of adreanal. The tumor was so large that it was cutting off his urinal track. They gave me my options, and the prognosis wasn't good. So, I made the decision to end his suffereing and let him go peacefully and painlessly.
I sit and wonder if i made the right decision. If i put him through the surgery, would he have made it? Or would it have just prolonged the suffering?
I just want Bandit to know that I love him and i hope he understands my decision. He was a sweet ferret, and so funny. He loved to steal shoes and hide my husbands remote control. We are going to miss watching him dook around the bedroom and start fights with the others. We pray that you are happy and no longer in pain.
We miss you, sweetness.
Your mom, Sabelblaze
Samantha
APRIL 13, 2000
ON A STARY NIGHT, WHILE CRICKETS SING
AND THE TREE WHICH HOLDS A SPECIAL
FRIEND WHISPERS SOFTLY.
I REMINISE THROUGH THE MEMORIES WE SHARED.
THE DR. PEPPER WHICH YOU LOVED SO MUCH, AND WOULD
SOMETIMES SNORT UP YOUR NOSE. THE GRAPES CUT UP JUST THE WAY YOU LIKED, IT WAS SO CUTE THE WAY YOUR LITTLE NOSE WOULD WRINKLE AND YOUR EYES WOULD SPARKLE.
THE MOUSE LIKE SQUEAK YOU MADE WHEN YOU WERE WEASEL WAR DANCING. THE SHOULDER RIDES AT THE MEDIVAL FAIR, THE WET KISSES, THE EAR NUZZLES, THE WAY THE VET'S USED TO CALL YOU OVER WEIGHT.
THROUGH ALL YOU WERE STRONG, I'LL ALWAYS REMEMBER AND LOVE YOU. MY SAMANTHA.
SAMANTHA CAME INTO OUR LIVES WHEN WE FOUND AN ADD IN THE LOCAL PAPER, FEMALE FERRET W/ CAGE $100, SHE WAS THE CUTEST THING I HAD EVER SEEN, ONLY A YEAR OLD. SHE MOVED WITH US TO MANY DIFFERENT PLACES, AND EVEN THROUGH THE VERY HARD TIMES OF 1999. SHE OUTLIVED TWO OTHER FURRY FRIENDS. SHE NEVER BIT ANYONE, AND WAS ALWAYS THE PROPER LADY, SHE LOVED TO NUZZLE AND TO BE HELD, RUN AROUND ANYWHERE AND EVERYWHERE. SHE LIVED TO THE AGE OF 7. SHE BECAME ILL SHORTLY AFTER THE END OF FEBUARY. AND WENT DOWN HILL FROM THERE. THE DOCTOR BELIEVED IT TO BE INSULINOMA, HE PUT HER ON STEROIDS AND FLUIDS. SHE DID GREAT, EVEN GAINED A LITTLE WEIGHT. BUT AFTER MOVING TO OUR NEW HOUSE, AND WAS PUT TO REST ON APRIL 13. AND IS NOW BURIED UNDER A TREE IN THE BACK YARD. WITH A BEAUTIFUL ANGEL WATCHING OVER HER. WE MISS YOU DEARLY, AND WILL NEVER FORGET THAT SWEET LITTLE FACE.
Allie
1994-2002
Allie,my 8 yr old female passed away last night at 832 pm of old age complications.Basically shed given up.When I rescued her ,she came with 2 others who passed away 2 yrs ago due to ECE.Since their deaths,she hasnt been the same.she will be sorely missed by fuzzies and humans alike .She was a very beautiful sable with very distinct markings and a burgundy undertone to her guard hairs.She was always very playful and loveable and loved her pink soccer ball that was one of my photographer props few years ago.Shed drag that thing back and forth,no one else was allowed to play with it.
Stormspirit
Billy Mouse
PT's Little Love
Rusty
4 weeks ago you came into my life and turned it upside down. You are such a sweet little boy and I am so happy and honored that you came into my life, even if it was only for a short time.
Today u found the courage to tell me that you didn't want to go on.
I know that you are at this moment making that trip across the rainbow bridge. Once you get there you will finally be at peace. No more needles and no more medicine. Your body will stop trembling in pain, and you'll be able to lift up your head and pick up those useless limbs and begin to walk and dance again.
I am so sorry that your former owners abandoned you. But, if they hadn't, we would have never met. And you never would have known real love.
Rusty, please know that mommy loves you and i will miss you SO very very much. The only thing that will keep me going is knowing the fact that you are safe now and in the hands of god!
We will see each other again someday.
Sheri
(sableblaze)
Rikki
Rikki was the sweetest little ferret. He loved to play and chase me around the room. Even though his life on earth was short. He brought alot of laughs and love into this home. We aren't sure why Rikki left us. Only god knows the answer. All i know is that i am very upset about it and i am having a hard time dealing with the fact that i never got to say goodbye. I never got too look into his beautiful pink eyes and tell him i love him.
I hope Rikki knows just how much we do
love him, and that we miss him SO very much.
Sableblaze
Tigger 1998-2002
A beautiful ferret that died too soon. My first ferret, I will miss you and love you always. I will always remember the way you scratched my leg to let me know that you wanted to sit on my shoulders to watch me wash dishes. I love you Tigger, and I miss you and your brothers and sisters miss you. We will never forget you. Joey
Weezie
I WOULD LIKE TO DEDICATE THIS TIME TO MY FERRET FOR 9 YEARS WHOM WAS ONE OF MY MANY ANIMAL CHILDREN "WEEZIE" SHE WAS VERY SPECIAL TO ME , HOW TO DESCRIBE HER WAS LIKE THIS SWEET, NOSEY, LOVES EVERYONE AND EVERYONE LOVED HER TOO I LOST HER TO KIDNEY FAILURE ON SEPTEMBER 16TH 2002 AT 8:32 AM . I KNOW NOW THAT SHE IS GODS LITTLE COMPANION NOW . "I LOVE YOU WEEZIE FOREVER AND ALWAYS "
YOUR MOM, HANNAH BRYANT
FUJI
My Fuji (Foofer) died last nite in his sleep. I knew that he had finally given up the fight when he stopped eating his soup. He was 7 yrs old. He came from a shelter with his cagemates, Sasha & Nikki. He was 4 when I got him and he had been an only ferret that had spent much of his life in a cage and walked on a leash for exercise. In the last 3 years he had learned how to dance and play with the others. He had a black dot on his nose that he wiggled when he sniffed stuff. His last year was adrennal operation and nodes from his pancreas. He came through that with flying colors but his IBD kicked in again( which we battled the year before and got it under control) no medicine or lupron helped. He was bald and thin since his food went right through him. My vet suspected cancer of the pancreas since the tests came back abnormal. She felt that it triggered the IBD...that and the stress of the operation. He was quite the fighter for life and never whimpered. I could tell by his eyes in the last few days that he was just exhausted....Last nite when I checked on him, he put his head out the opening and licked my fingers. I pet him and could feel that his body temp was cool instead of toasty warm...I told him that I loved him and that it was ok to go...I found him with his nose out the opening of his security cube this morning......I have lost other treasured pets (horses, cats, & dogs) but this is my first ferret....it NEVER gets easier......Tootsies 8 and missing 1
