Now we say goodbye to a tiny and valiant soul.
 
Onyx Olinda was a very small, quiet and shy little ferret of
indeterminate age because she, along with four other ferrets were rescued
by some kind-hearted people who found them locked into their thrown-away,
feces-encrusted cage (they had been starving and neglected of any care
for some time before) from out of a large dumpster, several counties from
where our little rescue is located.
 
She and her cage-mates all found their eventual home with us, four years
ago, now, after their initial rescuers brought them.  One of their
number, Little One Wandra, had been adopted two years before and had just
been reported to have died of insulinoma (a kind of pancreatic cancer) a
week before Onyx Olinda's passing, last night.  A second, named
Poindexter, had held on through adrenal cancer symptoms with the help of
a Lupron shot, but didn't survive a second one and died about eight
months ago.  And now, the tiniest, Onyx Olinda, who is shown lapping up
her "duck" soup in our little web-page (here...
http://www.angelfire.com/theforce/ferret_rescuer/index.html )
who never did weigh more than ten ounces, was down to eight ounces at the
last few days of her life from her cancer symptoms and signs of extreme
agedness (much similar to other ferrets we have who are between 9 and 12
years of age).
 
Now, from her former "troupe", just two lady-ferrets, Diamond Tiara White
and Emmaline The Dear are all that remain, and each of these fine elderly
lady frrets show no signs of any cancers.  All we can do is give them
each all the comfort we can.  Small redress as that is for how they were
treated before coming to us.
[Posted in FML issue 4454]