Early morning at the Rainbow Bridge has Muldoone at his appointed spot
awaiting the arrival of a fuzzy
 
The music in the wind had begun to change and the sad sweet melody could
be heard dancing softly on the breeze.  The Ferret Promise song played
for each and every arrival, whispering to their hearts; "rest now
wee-one, you are home."
 
Muldoone felt the familiar tingling in his whiskers and he knew another
was coming.  The music in the wind danced around him, singing of welcome
and loss, of love and longing, it sang of the promise that love was
eternal, it sang of the pain of separation, and the sorrow of an aching
human heart.
 
The flash of light subsided and then Mully heard the unmistakable sounds
of ferrety feets coming across the planks of the Bridge; the Moonbeam
Express having delivered another ferret whose time on earth had been
cut short.
 
Mully steps forward to greet the new arrival.  "Welcomes to da Wainbow
Bwidge Pippin, I be Mr. Muldoone, officialist Bwidge Gweeter."  Mully
leaned forward offering his nose to the new arrival in a friendly
greeting.
 
The little fuzzy sat down and looked all around at the new surroundings.
Hey, dis pwace be purrdy neats".
 
His eyes then rested on Muldoone and remained there for several minutes.
Mully could feel himself being stared at and he sensed a slight blush
beginning to glow.  Any minute now Mully thinks to himself, any minute
now I will hear it.
 
Little Pippin then cocked his head to one side and gave Muldoone one long
look.  "Hey there Mulgoonie, what do you do here for fun?" the new comer
wanted to know.
 
"Da name be Mr. Muldoone, not Mulgoonie, Mully tells Pippin narrowing his
eyes.  What was so difficult about his name, nearly all the new arrivals
seem to have trouble with his name.
 
"What did ya say kid?  Pippin asks Muldoone and by the way, call me Pip."
 
"Nuffin, I be sayin nuffin" Mully tells him.
 
"Schazam!" declares Pippin, sounds good to me.  "Ok, so tell me what does
a fuzzy do here to have fun?" he wanted to know.
 
"Well we hab wots of fun tings to dooes; we hab da sock steal, tube
waces, dirt mountain, we pway chassies, and odder tings we dooes" Mully
tells him with a twinkle in his eye.
 
"What kinds of things?" Pippin asks Muldoone.
 
"It derpendies how much funs you be wooking for, Mully told him.
 
"Hey Pips, you wike fwannel Mully asks, or how bout fwannel nightgowns
bewonging to gurl fewets?"
 
Offering his right paw to Muldoone to shake, "I think I am going to like
it here."
 
~~Muldoone~~
Caring for your ferrets at Rainbow Bridge.
[Posted in FML issue 4914]